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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.

All the neighbors are 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 Jun-Ho, who
guides her in the lobby and takes her to Attorney Jung Myeong-Seok’s office. Young-woo meets
Myeong-Seok, along with his associates, Soo-Yeon and Min-woo.

After Young-woo briefly introduces herself, attorney Jung Myeong-Seok 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.

In the next scene, 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 daughter of the jerk he had accused 22 years ago, Mr. Park grows angry and curses
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 object to one of the questions that was a little too leading. 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 decides they have no
choice but to bring Mr. Park in himself to testify in court. However, nothing much happens on the
first day, and the hearing is called off early.

Mr. Park appears in the courtroom on the next court date. 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, including
how Mr. Park had a headache before the iron strike. 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. So,
the bride's father sues the Hotel 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.

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. 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 Min-woo to talk to the bride and groom.

In the following scene, Young-woo and Min-Soo meet with the bride Kim 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. After hearing all this, Young-woo
asks if Hwa-Yeong really loves her husband but the latter struggles to 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, Jun-ho and Soo-Yeon act as a fake couple and decide to confront the hotel as
undercovers. 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.

In the next scene, 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 team 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 overhears Ji-Hye, a hotel employee talking in the restroom about
how Ju-Hui, 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 Ju-hui'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.

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 Ju-hui's contact information. This time, Ji-Hye finally opens up about the
incident and informs them that Ju-hui has left the country.

On the first day of the court trial, Ji-Hye arrives to testify as a witness to the wedding incident.
She reveals that the dress was torn by Ju-hui on the morning of the wedding, so the team
director scrambled for a replacement with a larger size of the same dress. Ju-Hui was then fired
to conceal the truth.

Then, It's Hwa-young's turn to testify, and the Hotel's legal team immediately bring their
attention to a post she made on an online community. In the post, Hwa-young mentions hiding
behind her trauma and shares her relief in the marriage, potentially getting called off. 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, genius attorney Young-
woo finds a solution to the case: They can argue that the gift of land was special damage and
seek a much more significant sum if they use the property's value. With her extraordinary
thinking, attorney Jung assigns Young-woo to write the Attorney Statement of Opinion.

Later, in a meeting with Hwa-young and her father, CEO Han mentions that they can demand
compensation according to the value of that property of land. 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 don't go as planned. Hwa-young suddenly raises her hand and
courageously 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.

Back in the courtroom, Hwa-young's father bursts into anger and lashes out at his daughter.
However, Hwa-young doesn't back down this time and reveals that she is actually in love with
her girlfriend.
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. She then talks
about how she will get married if she finds the love of her life.

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