The biopic will follow the future Prez – known to his friends as “Barry” – as he arrives in NYC in the autumn of 1981. The leaves are turning gold, the winds of change are in the air, and it’s time for our young hero to begin his junior year at Columbia University.

Netflix explains: “In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.

“Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later.”

Watch the trailer for yourself below:

Netflix has just dropped the first trailer for the emotional Barack Obama biopic