Poets have been hit hard in England's Lake District by royalty.

Anyone with a thing for sublime natural beauty was enchanted.

Could imagine fairies, goblins and ghosts.

A national park since the 1950s, maps list the area as an "Area of ​​Outstanding Natural Beauty" with its vast lakes, deep forests and mountains with far-reaching views.

If you discount the tourists, the impression is still breathtaking - and mysterious depending on the twilight.

With a nature that magically puzzles human affairs into a whole.

In which things between heaven and earth are possible that, in a more prosaic way, one would have to dismiss with a shrug of the shoulders.

The darkly romantic Lake District is the main character in the eight-part British Sky original production "The Rising", which deals with solving the murder of nineteen-year-old Neve Kelly (Clara Rugaard) and some other mysteries.

After a boozy rave under the night sky, Neve wakes up.

Had she gone swimming at night?

In the big lake near the small town of Keswick, she works her way up to the surface and onto the shore.

Must have been a bad party, judging by the memory gaps.

Everyone ignores her.

It's only when Neve notices her strangulation marks on her neck and other wounds that she realizes she must be dead.

Nobody sees her.

For the others, their mother Maria (Emily Taaffe), a painter, stepfather Daniel (Alex Lanipekun),

she is missing her step-siblings Katie (Robyn Cara) and Max (Cameron Howitt) and her boyfriend Joe (Solly McLeod) for the time being.

Searches are pending.

But what if you never get her body out of the lake?

What if the perp gets away with it because she broke up with Joe the night before and announced she was moving out of the area?

Would one credit her with this impulsiveness of disappearing?

A murder victim who finds himself

"The Rising" begins, as is usual in "Whodunnit" crime series, with the finding of the victim.

Even more unusual is that the victim finds himself and must first accept that he is dead.

Or at least just ghostly there.

That Neve must fight down her desperation and keep her cool to lead family and friends to the trail of her body.

Watch the police puzzling and come to the conclusion that, as invisible people, you have to solve the murder in your own hands.

Assisted by her biological father, Tom (Matthew McNulty), a notorious drunk who she sees and no one believes, and her ex-girlfriend Alex (Nenda Neururer), who has just moved back to the area after three years in a juvenile detention center and she also noticed.

Why these two outsiders can become Neve's allies remains hidden for a long time.

And there is a third person who sees them.

Terrible things from the area's past are unearthed, events and crimes that rock the present and future just as much as Neve's murder.

It is as if the evil deeds, all related to the renovation of the mansion Keaton Hall, a posh hotel, are preserved as well as in the memories in the landscape.

The plot structure of the more psychologically than horror show-wise impressive ghostly horror is not new and surprisingly not borrowed from English gothic romance, but is based on an adaptation of the Belgian mystery series "Beau Séjour" (run by Arte under the title "Room 108").

However, “The Rising” offers more than just changing the scene.

The young woman Neve, portrayed in a rather non-binary way, does not wake up in the hotel room where she was killed, as in "Beau Séjour", but emerges from the lake like a phoenix.

As a ghost, it seems, no longer committed to heteronormativity, she and Alex fall in love.

The fact that once the murder is solved they will be separated forever reinforces the mood of romantic longing.

The series makes his queer love seem like the ultimate combination of courage and overcoming, of the past and openness to the future.

In keeping with the genre, nature becomes an effective atmospheric intensifier of exceptional mental states.

Evil lurks in the woods, things that confuse the senses under water, on the “fur”, the hill, the wind sweeps away emotions and enables human recognition and forgiveness.

Before she was killed, Neve's freedom and talent made her the Vipers' club's greatest motocross hope.

The Rising

starts today at 8.15pm on Sky Atlantic.