 This is a documentary about Iliya Tzanov - a public figure, politician and a statesman; he is the first even Bulgarian lawyer prior to Bulgarian s Liberation in the 19th century. In 1886, after the gory crushing of the April Uprising, he takes on the task and the responsibility for being the public defender of some of the captured rebels brought to trial by the Turks. He succeeds in rescuing all the 18 trailed rebels from being sentenced to death.