这是一个真实的故事。盖瑞(丹尼尔•戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day Lewis 饰)生活于当年战火纷飞的北爱尔兰,那时北爱共和军正致力于反对英国的殖民统治。年轻的盖瑞整日无所事事,偷鸡摸狗,无意间得罪了北爱共和军。
无奈之下,其父(皮特•波斯尔思韦特 Pete Postlethwaite 饰)只能送他到英国闯天下。孰料,刚到英国的盖瑞就被当地心急立功的警察诬蔑为北爱共和军的恐怖分子,还连累了在英国的姑妈一家一同被当作恐怖分子关进了监狱。
其父四处陈情,最后也被关进了监禁。父子俩在监狱受尽苦头。直到多年之后,一位英国的女律师才开始从头调查这件极其荒谬的冤案。这件冤案最后能否得以平反,父子能否重见生天?
Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII. Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.
Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause. Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.