艾米丽(莎拉·米尔斯 Sarah Miles 饰)曾经是一名妓女,在攒够了钱之后,年岁已高不再适合这份工作的她带着身为孤儿和她相依为命的侄女米斯特拉尔(丽赛特·安东尼 Lysette Anthony 饰)离开了修道院,千里迢迢奔赴蒙特卡洛,准备在这里摆脱复杂的过去,展开新的生活。 艾米丽改名换姓,隐藏了一切过往,在他人眼中,雍容华贵的她是充满了秘密的伯爵夫人,而米斯特拉尔随着年龄的增长,其美貌的荣光已经无法再掩藏。这一对神秘的外来女子成为了当地居民们茶余饭后的谈资,而米斯特拉尔亦发现那些围绕在她身边络绎不绝的追求者们,其实内心里都在打着各自的算盘。
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.