十月里一个普通的湿气蒙蒙的日子,广告总监查尔斯(克里夫•欧文 Clive Owen 饰)错过了他的列车,但是在下一列车上,他却因一张车票,结识了金融投资顾问露辛达(詹妮弗•安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰),两人给彼此留下了良好的印象。其时查尔斯的女儿身患糖尿病,他不得不抽出更多的精力照顾女儿,而同时事业上却遭遇了挫折,妻子忙于工作,无暇给予他更多情感上的宽慰。之后的日子里,查尔斯与露辛达时常见面,两个各自有家庭的人越发接近,终于在一次约会后来到了宾馆,但这次独处很快被打破,一个名叫拉洛克(文森特•卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰)的陌生人破门而入,用枪威胁他们,实施了抢劫并强暴了露辛达。担心私情暴露的两人无法依靠法律,而拉洛克的勒索却越发频繁,查尔斯决定用自己的力量,去解决这场危机
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.