故事发生在1834年的北英格兰,寡妇莉亚(珍妮·麦克蒂尔 Janet McTeer 饰)带着三个年幼的孩子艰难度日。女佣詹妮(Judith Parker 饰)发现了可怜的母子四人,于是将他们带回了主人米勒先生(鲍勃·佩克 Bob Peck 饰)的家中。善良的米勒先生收留了可怜的一家人,随着时间的推移,莉亚的坚强和善良打动了米勒先生,后者将自己珍藏的一件天鹅绒礼服送给了莉亚,以表达爱意。同样爱上了莉亚的,还有这里的车夫托尔(Brendan P. Healy 饰)。 米勒对莉亚的四个孩子视如己出,尤其喜欢年轻有为的长子大卫(大卫·奥利弗·科恩 David Oliver Cohen 饰),然而,大卫却在一场误会之中失手砍伤了米勒。
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.