简介
公元587年，隋主杨坚为统一天下，以次子杨广为帅，统兵攻打陈国。次年攻入建康，终于使经历了280多年战乱分裂的古老中华得复统一。
隋统一后，宫廷内部发生了错综复杂的权力斗争。杨广为了争夺帝位陷害太子，并在皇上皇后面前加上厌奢侈、倡勤俭、勤政好学的假面目，大大提高了自己在皇上及皇后心里的地位。杨广将陈主后宫的嫔妃都带回隋国，献给了杨坚。杨坚封陈主的妹妹陈淑兰为宣华夫人，杨广对她一见钟情。得知她被杨坚选中为妃，杨广心中一片惆怅……。With no immediate family to live for, Joseph is haunted by a past he has tried, for decades, to forget - if not actively obscure with drink and drugs. Suffering the hangover from hell - the dry spell over - he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront hazy, fear-inducing memories from a childhood spent in the care system that he's had to f...。