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一处古色古香的和式房屋内，独自居住着年事已高的作家（大杉涟饰）。他曾经写下诸多优美凄婉的词句，而如今身心状态大不如前。一天天的衰老，令作家周身散发出几许凄凉况味。不知曾几何时，冷冷清清的房子突然变得热闹起来。老人的身边不知不觉多了一个欢呼雀跃的女孩子。女孩名叫赤子（二阶堂富美饰），她终日身着一袭红色的衣服，时而在榻榻米上跑来跑去，时而和老人一来一往对话，夜晚则与之相拥而眠，密迩无间。关于赤子的传言和猜测不胫而走，但鲜有人知晓她的真实身份。 原来赤子是老作家养了已有三年的金鱼，不知为何幻化成人形给老人带去慰藉。然而这对老少伴侣的宁静生活很快便被打破，老人的朋友芥川龙之介（高良健吾饰）、卖金鱼的男人（永濑正敏饰）以及老人曾爱慕的女人——已变成幽灵的百合子（真木阳子饰）相继出现，让他的生活陷入混乱之中……。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。