故事发生在20世纪初的纽约,在这样一个动荡的时代中,女人是无法依靠自己的力量立足的,她们想要得到稳定的生活,只有一种方法,那就是结婚,去寻求男人的庇护。莉莉(吉莲·安德森 Gillian Anderson 饰)是衔着金汤匙出生的千金小姐,聪慧的她自然懂得这个社会的规则,她亦明白,任何想要挺身而出和这个规则抗衡的女人,必定都不会有什么好下场。 所以,莉莉选择了妥协,把自己锋利叛逆的一面深深的隐藏起来,活跃在虚与委蛇的交际场之中,寻找着自己的庇护所。岁月如梭,年岁渐长的莉莉在情急之下未经慎重考虑就嫁给了一名富有的商人,虽然这场婚姻让莉莉暂时得到了自己想要的一切,但与此同时,她将会失去更多。
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.