Tessa, a girl from a working-class family, became an elite female lawyer in the legal profession after graduating from the Law School of Cambridge University in the UK with diligence and hard work. She is good at defending sexual assault suspects with sharp words and keen insight. However, a date with an ambiguous male colleague turned her from a defender to a victim. Tessa decided to sue the perpetrator herself, and Tessa standing in the witness stand found that the defense that she once regarded as “procedural justice” had caused her body and emotions to suffer “humiliation” again and again: in sexual assault cases, the burden of proof often falls on the victim, and she has to repeatedly recall and narrate her own victimization. How can she prove her “disagreement” at that moment? Those vague memories and missing evidence are obviously the normal reactions of the victim, but now they make it difficult for her to defend her rights…
