故事发生在19世纪末的巴黎,在灯红酒绿的上流社会中,一位名为露易丝(达尼尔·达黎欧 Danielle Darrieux 饰)的贵妇显得格外耀眼。露易丝的丈夫是一名极具威信的将军,故事要从将军送给露易丝的一副耳环说起。 为了偿还赌债,露易丝将耳环低价卖给了一位珠宝商人,对丈 夫则谎称耳环丢失。迫于将军的名望,珠宝商人将事情的真相如实告知。将军不声不响的将耳环买了回来,转手送给了相好许久的情妇劳拉(Lia Di Leo 饰)以讨其欢心,可是没过多久,这副耳环便辗转来到了意大利外交官德纳提(维托里奥·德·西卡 Vittorio De Sica 饰)的手中并最终物归原主回到了露易丝的身边。
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.