主授英国文学的大学教授玛丽(夏洛特·兰普林 Charlotte Rampling 饰),在其端庄切不可侵犯的外表下,隐藏着沉睡已久的蓬勃欲望。她与丈夫让(布鲁诺·克雷默 Bruno Cremer 饰)几十年的生活平淡如水,波澜不惊。这一切,却被丈夫的失踪击得粉碎。某个海滨的早晨,让独自离开度假小屋,一去不返。在此之后,玛丽似乎竭力控制着自己的情感,她设想丈夫仍在身边,每天陪她逛街、采购、聊天,生活一如既往。
不久,一具尸体被打捞上来。玛丽的自我麻痹结束,她开始试图了解丈夫的一切,却发现夫妻俩的隔阂与疏离如此之深。而在这一过程中,关于让的行踪也变得扑朔迷离,或生或死,永无定论…
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.