马库斯(Richard Gibson 饰)邀请自己的同学兼好友雷欧(多米尼克·格尔德Dominic Guard 饰)到自己家去玩,就这样,雷欧结识了马库斯的姐姐玛丽安(朱莉·克里斯蒂 Julie Christie 饰),美丽又善良的玛丽安给雷欧留下了非常深刻的印象。马库斯得了传染病,没办法陪雷欧玩了,雷欧就此结识了名为泰德(阿兰·贝茨 Alan Bates 饰)的农夫,泰德拜托雷欧帮他送信给玛丽安,雷欧答应了他。 之后,雷欧和退伍军人修斯(爱德华·福克斯 Edward Fox 饰)交上了朋友,并且震惊的得知,玛丽安的家人准备将她许配给修斯,不仅如此,雷欧还意外的发现,自己帮泰德和玛丽安送的那些信件,其实是他们的情书。
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.