A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
Holidaying in Algeria, French minister Corrazzi is fighting for his life in hospital after a botched assassination attempt. Algerian doctor Dr. Kabil is reluctantly trusted to save his life but discovers his daughter was involved.
