Following the historical book of the same name, this drama follows the ascent of Cromwell, becoming the closest adviser to Henry VIII.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by the civil War. Henry VIII wants to cancel his twenty-year marriage and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. In this impasse Thomas Cromwell is heading: a completely original man, a charm and a bully, both idealistic and opportunistic, skilled in reading people and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: an auction one day, one murderous day. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?