Can you imagine waking up one day being able to see, feel, and use the abilities of seven people you don't even know, spread across Chicago, Berlin, Seoul, Nairobi, Mumbai, Mexico City, Iceland, and San Francisco, without having any idea why this has happened to you or who wants to hunt you all down?
That's exactly what happens to eight strangers who suddenly find themselves connected in a way that has no logical explanation: they can transfer abilities between themselves, feel what the other is feeling, and appear in each other's lives as if they were physically there, while each one continues to carry their own life, their own secrets, and their own dangers.
There's an honest police officer to the point of self-destruction, an island DJ trapped in her past, a Berlin safe deposit box thief, a Korean executive fighting in secret kickboxing fights, a promising Hindu chemistry with a man she doesn't love, a Nairobi bus driver in need of money to save his mother, a trans hacker in San Francisco, and a Mexican action movie actor who hides who he really is. Eight lives that have nothing in common until something unites them without asking for permission, and from that moment on, an organization that knows very well what they are begins to pursue them.
It's called Sense8.