A young woman (Jodie Foster) is viciously gang-raped in a seedy bar after a seductive dance with a local man gets out of hand, but her defence lawyer (Kelly McGillis) makes a deal with the men to reduce the charge from rape to reckless endangerment. Furious, the victim takes her to task - and the two women take the onlookers to court on charges of inciting rape, in a case which made legal history.