20世纪60年代,英国伦敦。供职于伦敦钻石公司的劳拉·奎恩(黛米·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰)美丽端庄,聪明睿智,工作兢兢业业。但在女性地位尚未得到足够尊重的年代,尤其是这家男性占主导地位的钻石公司,劳拉的付出始终得不到应有回报,升职的机会一次次与之擦肩而过。某天,劳拉应邀和公司的清洁工——即将退休的胡布斯(迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰)出来看电影,却得知自己将被公司开除的消息,她的事业瞬时陷入绝地。
在钻石公司工作十多年的胡布斯深谙公司内部的管理情况,他瞄上了钻石公司的保险库,策划在退休前大干一笔,而多年来郁郁不得志劳拉正是这次行动的绝佳人选……
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.