In a tumultuous France at the end of the 19th century, an army officer named Alfred Dreyfus becomes the center of a monumental scandal that shakes the nation. After being unjustly accused of treason and espionage on behalf of Germany, Dreyfus, a Jewish member of high society, faces the brutality of a biased judicial system and the stubbornness of the army, which clings to the idea of his guilt.