改编自小说《四面佛》
20世纪初的旧中国,军阀割据民不聊生。湖南青年毛泽东积极投身革命运动,在李大钊、陈独秀指引下确立了马克思主义信仰,参与了创建中国共产党,工友赵语迟一路追随,并与陈独秀门生厉春风成为至交。蒋介石叛变革命,厉春风投入了反动阵营。毛泽东发动秋收起义挺进井冈山创立了根据地,赵语迟成长为革命战士。蒋介石连续围剿苏区,毛泽东在党内遭受排挤导致第五次反围剿失败,红军被迫长征。长征路上遵义会议确定了毛泽东领
性格刚烈的王后试图严加管教爱闯祸的儿子们,希望他们其中一人可以成为朝鲜的下一位王。与此同时,竞争对手对王位虎视眈眈。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.