A quiet American coastal town wakes up to boats full of strangers claiming asylum, and the reason they give for fleeing is what turns this into science fiction rather than a straight refugee drama.
What is The Crossing about?
The people washing ashore say they are running from a civil war, which is ordinary enough until the sheriff and a Homeland Security agent realize the country these arrivals are fleeing is the United States itself, roughly two and a half centuries from now. Steve Zahn plays the local sheriff pulled into a federal operation he was never trained for, while Natalie Martinez's agent tries to work out what the newcomers actually want and whether any of them pose a danger to the town absorbing them. Sandrine Holt and Georgina Haig lead a thread among the arrivals themselves, people who survived a sea crossing that many others did not, including a young girl who reaches the shore essentially alone. The series treats its central idea as a slow-burn mystery rather than an action premise: each episode adds a piece of what happened in the arrivals' own time and why so many of them chose the water over staying behind. Small-town suspicion, government secrecy, and the arrivals' own fractured loyalties all complicate a situation nobody involved fully understands yet.
About the cast
Steve Zahn anchors the show as a small-town lawman out of his depth, opposite Natalie Martinez's federal agent, with Sandrine Holt and Georgina Haig carrying the perspective of the arrivals themselves rather than the officials investigating them.
Context & significance
Created by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, the series builds its refugee premise around a country displaced from its own future rather than a foreign war, letting an American town confront a crisis usually staged somewhere else.
Watching The Crossing on Ktime
The Crossing is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the mystery in Farsi from the first episode, on a free account with a Farsi-first interface built for the diaspora.