故事发生在十九世纪的英国,霍布森(查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰)经营着一家鞋铺,辛辛苦苦拉扯着三个女儿玛姬(布伦达·德·班泽 Brenda De Banzie 饰)、爱丽丝(达芙妮·安德森 Daphne Anderson 饰)和维奇(普鲁内拉·斯凯尔斯 Prunella Scales 饰)长大,一转眼,三个姑娘都已经到了谈婚论嫁的年纪,但吝啬的霍布森并不准备支付女儿们的嫁妆。 玛姬爱上了鞋匠威利(约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰),尽管霍布森极力的反对这段不合时宜的感情,但独立好强的玛姬还是同威利结了婚。在玛姬的帮助下,威利的事业蒸蒸日上,很快便成为了霍布森最强劲的商业对手,与此同时,玛姬还帮助两个妹妹解决了嫁妆的难题。
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.