Avril, a young animal rights lawyer, does everything she can to save her client, a repeat offender dog, from the death penalty. This dog helps Avril accept her own human complexity. During development, Laetitia Dosch met Justine Triet, who told her that she was shooting Anatomie de la chute (2023), a film about a trial involving a dog and a visually impaired person, with the director. female protagonist. The similarities almost led Dosch to abandon the project.