The movie starts as a girl named Young-woo quietly
observes a whale toy hanging by the window, while
her father converses with their pediatrician.
After learning about her inability to speak,
the doctor confirms that Young-woo is autistic.
On their way home, an angry neighbor confronts
dad and accuses him of having an affair with his
wife. Young-woo’s dad tries to deny it but the
angry neighbor starts attacking him. Seeing
this, little Young-woo becomes terrified.
Suddenly, she starts reciting the law about
inflicting bodily injury and the potential
consequences that the neighbor could suffer.
Hearing this, the angry man is taken aback,
and he finally stops attacking her father.
All the neighbors are equally astonished to hear
Young-woo talk for the first time, but her dad is
incredibly overjoyed. While barely containing his
happiness, he takes Young-woo to their room and
asks where she learned the laws. Young-woo shares
that she learned while reading many of her dad’s
books about criminal laws. She further goes on to
reveal the rest of the articles from the book.
Later, the neighbor’s wife visits to apologize
for her husband’s behavior and delivers some
ointment while Young-woo’s dad cries in tears
of joy. Both are more than impressed to find
that Young-woo is actually an autistic genius.
In the present, an adult Young-woo
wakes up for her first day of work.
Her room is decorated with whale toys; as
she’s obsessed with the mammal. Before leaving,
her dad instructs her not to talk about whales
in the office. While Young-woo heads out for her
first day at work, dad is proud as his daughter
is the first-ever autistic attorney in Korea.
When Young-woo finally arrives at her workplace,
Hanbada Law firm, she meets a man named Jun-Ho,
who guides her in the lobby and takes her to her
superior; Attorney Jung’s office. Young-woo then
meets Jung, along with his associate, Soo-Yeon.
After Young-woo briefly introduces herself,
attorney Jung takes her application to
CEO Han and confronts her for accepting
Young-woo despite her autism. However, CEO
Han negotiates with Attorney Jung and makes
a deal to give Young-woo a chance. According to
the deal, Young-Woo will immediately be fired
if she isn’t upto the standards.
After returning to his office,
Attorney Jung gives Young-woo her first
case. It involves an old lady in her 70s,
Ms. Choi, who has hurt her husband, Mr. Park, with
an iron after they got into a heated argument.
It turns out that the husband had accused
Ms. Choi of flirting with a delivery man;
and in frustration, she aimed an iron at his
head. Because of this, Mr. Park fell unconscious
and suffered a brain hemorrhage. Ms. Choi was
eventually charged with attempted murder.
Following this, Attorney Jung takes Young-woo
to meet with Ms. Choi, who is taken aback by
Young-woo’s behavior. However, she soon learns
that they used to be neighbors 22 years ago.
It turns out that Mr. Park is the same
man who had accused Young-Woo’s father
for having an affair with his wife.
Later, Young-woo starts digging into the
case and asks about the couple’s source
of income. She learns that Mr. Park,
now suffering from dementia, is a retired section
chief. The couple has been living off the pension,
and the house is actually in Mr. Park’s name.
With this information, Young-woo tells
attorney Jung that Ms. Choi couldn’t have
attempted the murder as without her husband,
she wouldn’t have any income to survive.
Attorney Jung is impressed with Young-woo’s
critical thinking and apologizes for
calling her an ordinary attorney. Next,
Young-woo is assigned to meet Mr. Park at
the hospital along with another employee.
While waiting in the lobby for the employee,
Young-woo learns that Jun-ho is the one who
has to accompany her. The two formally introduce
themselves, shake hands, and make their way to the
hospital. After arriving, the doctor informs them
that Mr. Park has suffered a subdural hematoma
typically caused by external injuries. He is
confident that it was from the hit with the iron.
Afterward, the two go to the room
where the elderly couple is staying.
After learning that Young-woo is the same
girl who recited the laws to him 22 years ago,
Mr. Park feels threatened. Hence, he starts
hurling obscenities at her. Because of this,
Young-woo and Jun-ho are forced to leave while
Ms. Choi tries to calm her husband down.
After their messy ordeal at the hospital,
Young-woo and Jun-ho return to Attorney Jung’s
office. Attorney Jung declares that they should
try to push the case into a jury trial to give
Ms. Choi the best chance of winning.
In the next scene, it’s the trial day,
and Young-woo looks around the courtroom
before settling in. The case begins,
but Young-woo struggles to check in when the judge
takes attendance, prompting attorney Jung to speak
for her. However, when she notices her friend
and dad among the attendees, she gathers some
courage and starts representing the defendant.
Young-woo begins by clarifying to the court that
she has autism spectrum disorder, so her speech
and behavioral patterns might be a bit awkward.
During their questioning, the prosecution
is much harsher on Ms. Choi, but Young-woo
manages to help Ms. Choi with some of the
questions. After the case concludes for the day,
attorney Jung confronts the prosecutor for being
too harsh on Ms. Choi. But the prosecutor makes it
clear that he isn’t backing down. Attorney Jung
then concludes that they have no choice but to
bring Mr. Park in himself to testify in court.
The next day in the hearing, Mr. Park appears in
the courtroom. Seeing him, Young-Woo gets nervous,
as the man is infamous for his sudden outburst.
However, attorney Jung encourages Young-woo to
use this as a weapon, so that everyone can see
the real nature of Mr. Park. Young- Woo agrees
and when she approaches Mr. Park, as expected,
he gets upset and starts hurling obscenities. His
intense reaction makes the judge order him out of
the courtroom before the trial can resume.
After a while, Young-woo starts her statement,
but there’s a problem. Mr. Park died on
his way to the hospital. The news shocks
everyone in the room, and the charge will
now change from attempted murder to murder.
Following the incident, Young-woo carefully
focuses on the crucial parts of the case.
She studies the case file and finds out a
very important detail. It turns out that
Mr. Park had a headache even before he was
hit by the iron. It means that he already
had a brain hemorrhage before the iron strike.
So, at the next court date, Young-woo brings up
all of her findings in front of the doctor who
diagnosed Mr. Park. With all the facts presented
to him, the doctor eventually confesses that the
brain hemorrhage could have been spontaneous and
caused by a pre-existing illness. This
convinces the jury to lift all charges
from Ms. Choi, and the trial concludes.
A few days later, Jun-ho delivers good
news to Young-woo that Ms. Choi has been
found not guilty of murder and received
only probation for the crime of inflicting
bodily injury. Just then, Ms. Choi arrives
at the place and expresses her gratitude to the
extraordinary attorney before sharing a warm hug.
The next case is about a bride whose wedding
dress slipped while walking down the aisle. Hence,
the bride’s father sues the Hotel,
which belongs to the groom’s family,
for such a humiliating disaster.
It all starts when a bride and groom prepare to
walk down the aisle. As the guests applaud happily
for the newlywed couple, things halt when the
bride stops to glare at the crowd for a while. The
groom abruptly pulls his wife’s hand, causing the
dress to slip. Things escalate quickly as everyone
stares in shock after the bride’s ‘Buddha tattoo’
on her back is exposed. Here, we get to know that
the groom’s family is strictly Catholic, and that
they despise any other religion except theirs.
At Hanbada Law Firm, the bride’s father, Mr Kim,
shows up to consult with CEO Han and Attorney
Jung. He wants to sue the hotel venue, Daehyeon
Hotel, for the disastrous wedding event, which
included the designing of the wedding dress too.
Here, we get to know that Daehyeon
Hotel belongs to the groom’s family.
Although the Hotel has already offered
to give a full refund for the wedding
and additional compensation, it’s not enough for
Mr. Kim and he demands at least a billion Won.
In a meeting with his team, attorney Jung goes
over the case and claims how difficult their
next task will be. They will have to find a
solid reason to support that the Hotel is to
blame for the incident. Since the Hotel doesn’t
give information openly, the team has to go
undercover. Soo-Yeon and Jun-ho will pretend
to be a couple and visit the Daehyeon hotel,
while Young-woo will go with another
colleague to talk to the bride and groom.
In the following scene, Young-woo and one
of her associates meets with the bride;
Hwa-Yeong, at her parent’s house. She reveals
that the groom’s grandfather tried to cancel
the wedding because of her tattoo of the Buddha.
The attorneys also learn that the wedding dress
was loose when Hwa-Yeong first tried it on, so the
hotel staff used pins to tighten it. Additionally,
Young-woo notices that there are no pictures of
her fiance around the house, and Hwa-Yeong has
even removed her wedding ring. She then asks
the bride if she loves her fiance, but the
latter struggles to come up with an answer.
Next, the attorneys meet the groom, Jin-Wook,
at his Hotel, Daehyeon. He shares that it was
his grandfather who initiated the marriage.
To their surprise, the attorneys also learn
that Hwa-young has been seeing a psychiatrist
following the wedding incident.
Meanwhile, Min-Woo and Soo-Yeon
are tasked to confront the hotel as undercovers.
They have to try on some wedding dresses, so that
they can find something suspicious and use it
against the hotel in their ongoing case. However,
Soo-Yeon suddenly gets an upset stomach
and rushes to the hotel restroom. Since she
doesn’t feel well, Soo-Yeon stays behind in the
toilet and asks Young-woo to go in her place.
As a result, Young-woo reunites with Jun-ho and
tells him that they will have to call each other
“sweetie” now, meaning the two now have to
act as a couple. They hurry for their meeting
with the director of the wedding business.
Later, they sit on the hotel sofa and pretend
to book a wedding date. After a while, they
also look at the available dresses and pick
out a dress similar to the one Hwa-young wore
for her wedding. The director isn’t satisfied
with Young-woo’s choice of dress, but the
latter is adamant about trying that fit.
In the meantime, Soo-Yeon, who is still suffering
from her stomach ailment, overhears Ji-Hye,
a hotel employee talking in the restroom about
how another employee was fired following the
dress mishap. She immediately calls Jun-Ho
and informs him about her finding. Jun-ho then
follows Ji-Hye into the staff room and inquires
about the fired employee’s contact information,
but she isn’t willing to give away the information
so quickly. After a while, Jun-ho returns to the
room where Young-woo is clad in a white gown
with a bouquet in her hands. Jun-ho is at a
loss for words after seeing her, however, they
don’t find anything suspicious with the dress.
In the next scene, attorney Jung and his team sit
with the judge and Daehyeon Hotel’s legal team.
It’s clear that the Hotel’s team isn’t backing
down since it can damage their reputation.
While Young-woo and Jun-ho spend
some alone time together at a bakery,
they spot Ji-Hye and again plead for the
fired employee’s contact information.
This time, Ji-Hye finally opens up about the
incident and informs them that the employee has
left the country. Moreover, she also agrees to
be a witness to the case and testify in court.
On the first day of the court trial, Ji-Hye
arrives to testify as a witness to the wedding
incident. She testifies that the incident was
not completely an accident, and reveals that
the dress was torn by the fired employee; Lisa, on
the morning of the wedding. With time running out,
the team director scrambled for a replacement
with a larger size of the same dress.
Because of the mishap, Lisa was humiliated
and fired immediately after the wedding.
This puts the hotel at fault. But it’s not a
win yet for team Hanbada. In a shocking turn
of events, the hotel’s attorney calls upon the
bride to the stand. There, they reveal that the
bride had made posts on a website called Wagle,
where she confesses her relief at the outcome
of the ceremony Apparently, she’s not into the
groom and only went ahead with the arrangement
because her father wanted to be in-laws with
a wealthy family. Attorney Jung and his team
are shocked to discover this side of the story
and later convince Hwa-young to tell the truth.
Later in the attorney’s office, Hwa-young finally
shares the reality of the marriage. She reveals
that she would have received a sizable amount of
land as a wedding gift. In this way, the marriage
was more of a business deal, than a relationship.
Just then, Young-woo flips the compensation
argument around. She claims that since the
marriage was hinged on that promise and
Hwa-young couldn’t go through with the
wedding due to the hotel’s negligence,
the hotel should compensate for the loss of the
land. This means it would raise the amount of
compensation from 1 billion up to 3.32 billion.
Hwa-young’s father is beyond happy to hear the
news but Hwa-young doesn’t want the compensation
and vainly tries to talk her father out of it.
At the next court hearing, the groom’s uncle, the
chairman of Daehyeon Hotel, testifies and admits
that he was aware of the land as a wedding gift.
This revelation becomes a win for Team Hanbada,
but things quickly take a sharp turn. Hwa-young
suddenly raises her hand and announces to withdraw
from the lawsuit. Everyone in the room, including
the attorneys, are left in utter disbelief.
A flashback then shows a brief conversation
between Young-woo and Hwa-young in her office,
where Hwa-young learns that she has the right
to withdraw from the case, hence losing the
3.2 billion won they were about to get.
Back in the courtroom, Hwa-young’s father
bursts into anger and lashes out at his daughter.
However, this time, she’s done with her father
being very oblivious about her life. She
reveals she’s Buddhist, not a Christian,
neither is she straight. In fact, she is in love
with a girl. This is the reason she doesn’t have
any pictures with the groom in her room. Instead
she keeps pictures of her and her girlfriend.
This girlfriend also attended her wedding, and
that’s why she’s shocked when she saw her in
the ceremony which ultimately resulted in the
slip. With her newfound confidence, she marches
out of the courtroom with her girlfriend
while her father has a mini heart attack.
After the case concludes, the team heads out
together for a meal on CEO Han’s treat. Following
the dinner, Jun-Ho waits outside the restaurant
for Young-woo, but she is in a hurry to go home.
When Young-woo arrives home, she delivers some
seaweed sushi for her dad. The father-daughter
duo then starts chatting. The whole wedding
saga has Young-woo thinking about her future,
and she admits to her dad that she probably won’t
be able to get married because of her autism.
However, if she does get married, she’s
definitely giving her bouquet to daddy
as she’d like to see her singleÂ
father get married after she does.
