‘Verdict’ is a lawsuit drama unlike any other. A story of domestic abuse told with a skyrocketing pulse and a strong, intrusive sense of necessity, portraying how an otherwise functioning justice system is undermined by poverty and patriarchal bureaucracy.

Joy fears her husband Dante each time he drunkenly stumbles home to their little apartment in Manila. She’s usually his victim, but this time he also turns violent against their 6 year old daughter. A battered Joy reaches out to the police, who refers her to their unit for physically abused women and children.

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