This is the story of a judge, who, living a most orderly and well regulated life and in the performance of his judicial duties is daily handing out sentences to his fellow men without any apparent appreciation of the deeper underlying motives which prompted their acts, is confronted with a set of circumstances which lead him suddenly to shoot the son of the man he has sentenced. It goes to show that none of us is free from those primitive impulses which play so large a part in our lives, and which may, without warning, break loose and with all the force of thousands of years of repression plunge us into the commission of acts which we are too often prone to condemn in others. It is an exceedingly interesting psychological study, which describes step by step the various mental processes which lead up to the commission of the crime.