巴里（羅里·金尼爾 Rory Kinnear 飾）是小鎮(zhèn)上的教區(qū)議員，生前的再也無法想到的是，自己的外猝死會(huì)在風(fēng)平浪靜的小鎮(zhèn)掀起怎樣的狂瀾?；羧A德（克爾·剛本 Michael Gambon 飾）和雪莉（朱莉婭·麥肯茨 Julia McKenzie 飾）是鎮(zhèn)上的模范夫妻、西蒙（Richard Glover 飾）是個(gè)喜歡在老婆和孩子身上發(fā)泄怒火季格暴力狂、沃校長(zhǎng)（西蒙·邁克伯尼 Simon McBurney 飾）整日神經(jīng)兮兮，每一個(gè)都覺得自己是巴里所留下的位的最佳繼承者，并做好了足的準(zhǔn)備，為了得到他們所要的東西而爭(zhēng)得你死我活。名為“從地”的貧民區(qū)里，小鎮(zhèn)居民們視為眼中釘肉中的人們依舊過著日復(fù)一日的苦生活，殊不知，一個(gè)意在他們徹底“鏟除”的計(jì)劃正悄悄醞釀。?豆?
Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Public Enemies) stars in BBC Two's powerful factual drama as Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover Eddie McNally (played by newer to television, Richard Gadd), under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial.More than ten years before the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967, Peter Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu (Mark Edel-Hunt) and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed.With his career in tatters and his private life painfully exposed, Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality impacted on the lives of men like him.Daniel says: 「I'm incredibly proud to be part of a drama that tells such an important real-life story. Peter Wildeblood is a fascinating, plex, yet flawed character from a time when being a gay man in Britain was incredibly difficult - I can't wait to bring his tale to life for the BBC Two audience.」Patrick Holland, Channel Editor, BBC Two, said: 「50 years ago, it was a crime to be a gay man in the UK. Against The Law is a stunning piece that melds drama and documentary testimony to tell the story of one man, and his wider generation, as they struggled to make society accept their sexuality as non-criminal. It is brilliant to have a film that brings the authorship of Brian Fillis, the vision of director Fergus O'Brien, and the outstanding talent of Daniel Mays and cast to this important subject」The drama also features Mark Gatiss (Taboo, Sherlock) as Wildeblood's prison psychiatrist, Doctor Landers and Charlie Creed-Miles (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders) as Superintendent Jones.Woven through this powerful drama is real-life testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their "condition". There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All of these accounts serve to amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past, a past still within the reach of living memory.
