Vivian
Vivian is a Taiwanese-American who is in the United Kingdoms on vacation when she is brutally raped by a young man of the age of sixteen. The boy is Johnny. The rape is brutal and violent, and Vivian's experience of its horror continues long after the incident is done. She instantly has interview after interview where she must re-inflict herself with the recent trauma. She develops extreme PTSD and paranoia, which is only exacerbated by the media coverage the case receives.
Johnny
Johnny is sixteen when he rapes a polite stranger named Vivian. His hateful and dehumanizing treatment of her traumatizes her, but Johnny is unable to keep Vivian from telling her story. Johnny ends up in jail on trial, and his defense attorneys take Vivian to task, literally blaming the victim of a rape in court, trying to paint her as a criminal. Johnny's defense is simply that Vivian framed him, and that the sex was consensual.
The defense attorneys
The defense attorneys have time in the trial where they are allowed to emotionally lacerate young Vivian. Not only is she still in a state of absolute panic and despair, she is also treated with contempt and shame by these men who maintain their client's innocence despite obvious evidence. The media has enough from the attorneys to shape the story as a scandal, and the whole nation takes sides. At the end, Vivian's life has been way worsened by these lawyers and their conniving.
