艺术学院学生本(肖恩•比格斯代夫 Sean Biggerstaff 饰 )在被女友苏芝甩了之后,夜夜无法入睡。在经历了两周的不眠之夜后,本决定到超市去上夜班以打发这额外的8小时。
在超市上夜班,本遇到了形形色色的人,包括喜欢恶搞的同事巴里和马特、超级迷恋中国功夫的布莱恩,还有收银员莎伦(艾米丽雅•福克斯 Emilia Fox 饰)。在这里,本发现了自己有能停止时间的能力。他一次次在上夜班时停止时间,用自己的画笔去描绘各式女子。
不知不觉间,本发现自己喜欢上了莎伦,并且不再失眠。就在本准备展开爱情攻势的时候,误会一个个接踵而至,本又开始失眠了
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.