“You never know when your world is about to change. But when it does … you need to have a plan.”

For two siblings, that means finding safety in a bunker thanks to their father: “the only one who can fix it,” when a brutal virus carried by the rain wipes out almost every human in Scandinavia.

They emerge six years later to find all remnants of civilization gone, and join a group of young survivors on a danger-filled quest searching for other signs of life.

The group is also set free from their collective past and societal rules, and discover that even in a post-apocalyptic world there’s still love, jealousy, and many of the coming-of-age dilemmas they thought they’d left behind with the disappearance of the reality they once knew.

“Who will you be when the rain comes?” Netflix asks in its first Danish original series.

The Rain is created by Jannik Tai Mosholt (Borgen, Rita, Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear, Beyond Beyond) and Christian Potalivo (Dicte, The New Tenants, Long Story Short).

It stars Alba August (Reliance, Jordskott, Unga Astrid), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (A Royal Affair, The Legacy), Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen (Tidsrejen, Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes), Lars Simonsen (The Bridge, Brotherhood), Iben Hjejle (Dicte, High Fidelity), Angela Bundalovic (Dark Horse, Blood Sisters), Sonny Lindberg (The Legacy, Anti), Jessica Dinnag (The Guilty, The Man), Lukas Løkken (One-Two-Three Now!) and Johannes Kuhnke (Force Majeure).

The Rain premieres May 4 on Netflix.

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