Season 1
8 episodes
53 min. per episode
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A brilliant friar and his apprentice unravel deadly secrets within a shadowy abbey, challenging faith and power amidst a chilling mystery.
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Young Adso denounces the hedonistic ways of his influential father and joins the enlightened friar, William of Baskerville, as his new apprentice. They arrive at an abbey for an important theological debate but a strange death occurs.
After another suspicious death, William and Adso look for a way to get into the abbey's mysterious library. Meanwhile, inquisitor Bernardo Gui, who's traveling to the abbey, brings the wrath of god to all he deems sinners along the way.
A monk goes missing, William looks for a new pair of glasses to inspect the library's books, Adso falls for a free-spirited peasant girl, huntress Anna goes on a mission to avenge her family and kill Gui.
William studies further the mysteries of the library, Adso helps the peasant girl he fell for after she's caught in a hunting trap, a conflict between the heretics and the lords is revealed, tensions in the convent rise as Gui arrives.
The peasant girl finds wounded Anna, Gui looks for allies and foes in the abbey, Adso breaks his vows, William debates comedy, the main debate about apostolic poverty turns violent, perverted monk Salvatore captures the peasant girl.
In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.