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Nora (the versatile Marina Foïs, The Workshop & Gaspard at the Wedding - SFFF 2018, Papa ou Maman 1 & 2 - SFFF 2016 & 2017, Polisse - SFFF 2012) is convinced that Jacques Viguier (Laurent Lucas) is innocent of murdering his wife, whose body has never been found. She is personally invested in his case because Viguier’s  daughter is her young son’s tutor. Viguier was acquitted at trial but now faces the courtroom again following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office. Fearing a miscarriage of justice, she manages to persuade a top defense attorney, Maître Eric Dupond-Moretti (the always perfect Olivier Gourmet, The Royal Exchange – SFFF 2018, The Midwife - SFFF 2017) to defend him at his second trial.

She is a cook in a brasserie with no judicial experience, but her passion convinces Dupont-Moretti that she can help, and together they start a compulsive search to prove Viguier’s innocence. But as the vise tightens around the accused, Nora's quest for truth turns to obsession. She abandons her job, her son, and even her moral scruples to prove Viguier’s innocence, ready to blame another possible culprit, the wife’s lover (Philippe Uchan), without proof. Following the tradition of any good courtroom drama, Conviction reaches its climax at the end when Olivier Gourmet delivers his inspired closing argument.

Based on a true story, the gripping Conviction is Antoine Raimbault’s first film.

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