After her struggling law practice is destroyed by an unhappy client, Josephine Newton finds her marriage falling apart and the appeal of motherhood fading. Her former university friend and admirer, Lewis Hughes, encourages her to return to her once-promising career as a barrister. As she embraces this new challenge and exchanges the perks of her sharp intellect for a position in the prestigious Knox Chambers, Josephine discovers that leaving her past behind is more difficult than she anticipated.