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Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the original novel of the popular drama - an anti-heroic epic about a prodigal son, the haunting childhood shadow, and the costly road to self-rescue. Twenty-two-year-old Patrick Melrose was deeply addicted to drugs. His father passed away suddenly, and he had no choice but to go to New York to retrieve his father's ashes. For an entire weekend, Patrick frantically searched for drugs on the streets of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and inner nightmares. He stayed alone in the guest room of the Pierre Hotel, pushing his body and mind to the brink of destruction - just one step away from being swallowed up by the rapidly eroding past.

Who is Dunbar? The founder of a media empire, with power and wealth at its peak. But that was all in the past tense, and now, he is a dim and fragile old man. The two daughters perfectly inherited his greed and cruelty, imprisoning their father in an expensive nursing home in England's Lake District. Leaping over the sanatorium, Dunbar succeeded. In the wilderness of Cumbria, he thought of the word "the center of the wilderness", returned to the starting point, and rethought "who am I", "where should I go?" And "how should I live?". In the search of public opinion and manpower, no one knows the whereabouts of Dunbar...