故事发生在1862年的伦敦,詹姆斯(埃迪·雷德梅恩 Eddie Redmayne 饰)是一位非常有理想抱负的年轻科学家,致力于研究天气预报技术,然而,经济上的窘迫让他无法使用自己的热气球将研究成果带上天空,于是,他找到了名为艾米莉亚(菲丽希缇·琼斯 Felicity Jones 饰)的女子。
艾米莉亚是一个经验非常丰富的热气球飞行员,如今却沉溺在一段痛苦的往事之中无法自拔。她答应了詹姆斯的请求,两人共同驾驶着热气球开始了他们的冒险,并且凭借着智慧和勇气抵达了人类从未涉足过的高度。然而,当他们飞的越高,所要面对的危险就越大。
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.