November 1975, Paris. The appeal hearing of Jewish far-left activist Pierre Goldman is about to begin. Goldman, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for four armed robberies—one of which resulted in the deaths of two women—pleads not guilty to the murder charges. The highly publicized court proceedings turn Goldman into a romantic figure and a hero for the intellectual left, despite the growing tension with his young attorney, Georges Kiejman. As Goldman, ever the agitator for his ideals, throws his own trial into chaos, he risks receiving a death sentence.
The Goldman Case paints a psycho-pathological portrait of a militant revolutionary while exposing a society torn apart by the enduring patterns of racism and injustice that remain virulent to this day.
