Chronicle of the judicial scandal to the French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, in 1894 due to anti-Semitic conspiracy in the War Department because of treason and sentenced to Devil's Island will be banned. With the support of the writer Emile Zola, Dreyfus' wife Lucie fights for his release. 1899 is the verdict against Dreyfus lifted, a little later he is pardoned. Until his final rehabilitation but it still takes six years.