理查德(凯文·詹森斯 Kevin Janssens 饰)、斯坦(文森特·科隆布 Vincent Colombe 饰)和迪米特里(纪尧姆·布谢德 Guillaume Bouchède 饰)每年都要在荒漠中集结,进行打猎活动,今年亦是如此,和往年不同的是,这一次,理查德把自己的情妇珍(玛蒂尔达·鲁茨 Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz 饰)也带来了。
珍是一个风情万种美艳不可方物的女人,她的一举一动都让斯坦和迪米特里感到心里痒痒的。第二天早晨,斯坦终于按捺不住强暴了珍。当珍将这件事情告诉理查德之后,后者非但没有替她主持公道,还将她推下悬崖想要毁灭证据包庇好友。命大的珍并没有死,鬼门关里走了一遭之后,她痛定思痛,决心复仇。
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.