Fourteen years in a coma, then a stolen identity. DNA, a Lebanese crime thriller series from 2021, builds its mystery around a man who wakes from a long darkness and steps into a life that belongs to someone else. Daniella Rahme and Moatasem al-Nahar lead the cast.
What is DNA about?
The series opens with a survivor. A young man who was left for dead after an attempt on his life finally regains consciousness, only to learn that fourteen years have passed while he lay unconscious. The world he returns to has no place waiting for him, and he has a history of deception to draw on. When he learns that Aya Al-Haffar's brother vanished years ago and was never found, he sees an opening: he presents himself as the missing sibling and slips into a family that has spent years grieving an empty chair. What starts as a fraud becomes a tangle of questions. Who wanted him dead in the first place? What really happened to the brother whose name he now carries? And how long can a lie hold when the people around him are searching for the truth of their own loss? Across its episodes, DNA layers the con artist's scheme over an older mystery, letting the two stories pull against each other.
About the cast
Daniella Rahme and Moatasem al-Nahar front the series, sharing the screen as the two figures whose lives become entangled through the impersonation at the heart of the story. No director is credited in the catalogue listing, so the production is best understood through its two leads, whose scenes together carry much of the show's tension between suspicion and hope.
Context & significance
Lebanese television has produced a steady run of glossy, serialized dramas in recent years, and DNA belongs to that wave, combining the pace of a crime thriller with the family entanglements of a mystery melodrama. Its premise, a stranger claiming a lost relative's identity, is a classic engine for suspense because every scene carries the risk of exposure. The show also touches on the aftermath of a long coma and what it means to re-enter society after more than a decade away. Episodes run around 38 minutes, a length that keeps the plotting brisk and suits viewers who like to watch several instalments in one sitting. Genre tags of crime, drama, mystery and thriller describe it accurately: the emphasis is on secrets, motives and the slow unpicking of a lie.
Watching DNA on Ktime
DNA streams on K-Time in its original Arabic audio with Persian subtitles; there is no Persian dub. This page is free to read, but you need a K-Time account to play the episodes, so sign in or create one before you start. The Farsi interface makes it simple for Persian speakers across the diaspora to follow the series episode by episode.