A judge, steve Hardin, has to grapple with his conscience as criminals in his court are going free as a result of lawyers finding loopholes in law . Hardin feels utterly powerless before he discovers a small group of successful men, The Star Chamber bent in their own type of vigilante justice. Meeting behind closed doors at the extreme secrecy, they decree their particular punishment to the guilty who have slipped through the device without paying for their crimes.