该剧由刚刚获得奥斯卡奖的电影《为奴十二年》(12 Years A Slave)的编剧John Ridley打造,故事描述一起带有种族色彩的谋杀案及随后的审判过程给所有相关人员造成的影响——包括受害人及其家人、罪犯及其家人等。当一对住在莫德斯托市的夫妇遭人入室行凶后,由此引出的社会问题在当地引发强烈反响,人们将它视为反映当代美國人种族观、阶级观和性别政治的一面镜子。
Since the adoption of Western ideas in decoration and household furniture, the Japanese dwellings have lost somewhat in point of attractiveness. Our carpets and furniture are out of place in a Japanese room, and so are our pictures and statuary. It is a pity that the people should ever abandon their domestic customs for ours, whatever they might do in the matter of military equipment, machinery, and other things that are more or less commercial. Japanese men and women are far more attractive in their native dress than in ours, and a Japanese house loses its charm when the neat mattings give way to European carpets, and chairs and tables are spread around in place of the simple adornments to which the people were accustomed. The window flew open and she raced down the garden like a hare. The little man struggled silently, furiously. "Here is the latchkey," he said. "There are several of them. There is no caretaker in the place as yet. Go in, you have no further need of me." "I don't want to lose no more money on baby bets," replied a tantalizing voice. "I'll make it $40 or nothin'. Now, youngster, if y're a man—" "Then, my lord, I call that man a liar, because he said he found the parchment in the steward's room; and I call him a traitor and a liar, because he got Stephen Holgrave out of the forest of Dean, by saying, that of his own good will, he helped to lay his mother in a church-yard, when he was paid in good broad pieces for doing the work." HoME欲女阁教你欲女无数
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