Presumed Guilty.(Brief Article)

At age seven, Lara Patrick was sent from Moscow to her grandmother in the United States, having been abused and now filled with half-suppressed, nightmarish memories. Becoming a prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office, Lara who never believed that her mother's death was caused by an accidental overdose of drugs, returns to Russia after receiving a photograph of a mutilated woman. Aided by Alexei, one of post -- Cold War Russia's nouveaux riches, and dogged by Moscow cop Yuri, Lara begins an investigation that sets off another …