和大部分女大学生一样,芭芭拉(露易丝·布尔昆 Louise Bourgoin 饰)有着年轻美丽的外表和对未来无限的期望,和男友尼古拉斯(皮奥·马麦 Pio Marmaï 饰)的恋情更让她相信她正在经历的是一生中最美好的时光。一个孩子的到来将一切美好粉碎殆尽,她无法想象在心智上还是一个孩子的自己竟然要做母亲了。 在犹豫和期待中,芭芭拉选择了将孩子留下,没想到,孩子的出生则成为了芭芭拉的另一个噩梦。面对眼前这个毫无防备的小小生命,在为人母的艰巨责任面前,芭芭拉退却了,她怎么也弄不明白的是,成为母亲,这明明是一件幸福的事情,为什么会有那么多的悲伤和恐惧深藏其中呢?
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.