She has 17 minutes to save his life by destroying it. Your move, legal drama.
A public defender has minutes to save her 16-year-old client from a life sentence for murder by convincing him to take a plea deal for a crime he only technically committed, but to defend this boy, she will have to condemn him.
Acting
Kate Morgan Chadwick's unraveling composure in real-time collapse.
Direction
Oppenheimer's documentary background weaponized for fiction's sweat.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes 'technically' into emotional warfare.
Director
Joseph Oppenheimer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during peak true-crime podcast fever, Plea weaponizes the format's intimacy against its audience—no binge, no distance, just suffocation.
The 17-minute runtime matches the average public defender's actual case prep time in overburdened jurisdictions. Oppenheimer researched LA County's juvenile system for two years.
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