The story of communist victim Milada Horáková that is show-trial. Horáková was clearly one of those first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She compared the communist coup in 1948 but failed to leave the country. She had been arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and exhibited in film clips. The film centers on the period from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took more, but goes back a little further in Horáková's lifetime in to the 1930s