After the death of her father, detective Juliet Dumon starts over. She leaves Brussels and returns to her hometown of De Haan to care for her niece, who lived with her father.

A friendship unites two youngsters who have travelled alone from Africa and find themselves contending with the cruel conditions of their exile in Belgium.

Twelve ordinary citizens are summoned for jury duty, where their decision in a murder case is not the only thing at stake.