Netflix has done it again! The streaming king has launched yet another new hit series that’s breaking through and trending in a big way. Not only that, but this series carries the double-punch appeal of being a dramatic thriller (perfect for Halloween season) that also happens to be based on a true story (perfect for masses of true-crime lovers). And the numbers seem to prove it: As of writing this, the show is topping Netflix’s streaming charts in over two dozen countries around the world!
No One Saw Us Leave (Nadie Nos Vio Partir) premiered on Netflix, starting on October 15th; in just six days it has topped the charts in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela, and other Spanish-language countries; in the US, the show has managed to crack the Top 5 every day of its release; it has remained in the Top 10 over in the UK, and overall is ranked Top 10 in over 37 countries. Those are very encouraging premiere stats for the show, and it’s fair to say that in certain parts of the world, it is the ‘water cooler show’ of the moment.
Author Tamara Trottner released the novel No One Saw Us Leave last fall; even though the book is listed as a novel (and therefore fiction), it is actually based on a real-life event in 1968. An affluent family of Jewish-Mexican background is rocked when the husband abducts his two children, leaving Mexico with them for parts unknown. The mother is forced to go on a global search to find her kids with the help of a former Israeli Mossad agent, but certain parties in the family are working against her to aid her husband.
In real life, Tamara Trottner was in fact one of the children taken by the father; the book she wrote is narrated from her perspective as a five-year-old girl being dragged around the world in a hide-and-seek game waged by her father; Netflix’s No One Saw Us Leave puts the mother, Valeria Goldberg (Tessa la) in the protagonist slot, as she desperately tries to find her kids.
As the show’s synopsis reads: “Valeria Goldberg (Tessa la) is stuck in a golden cage. She’s in an arranged marriage to Leo Saltzman (Emiliano Zurita), the son of influential businessman Samuel Saltzman (Juan Manuel Bernal). When she cracks under the pressure and makes an unforgivable misstep, the Saltzmans turn on her — they make plans to tear her away from her children and ruin her reputation among their insular and affluent community. On the advice of his overbearing parents, Leo takes his and Valeria’s two young children, Tamara (Marion Siro) and Isaac (Alexander Varela), abroad to Europe without a word to Valeria about where they’re headed.
When Valeria realizes that her children are gone, she enlists the aid of Elías (Ari Brickman), an ex-Mossad agent turned P.I., to help her track them down. As Valeria and Elías chase Leo and the kids across the world, her desperation is compounded by her in-laws’ attempts to turn their shared community against her. Will Valeria ever reunite with her children? Or will the family she married into get away with their crimes?”
Netflix has made Spanish-language content part of its core content strategy for years now. The smash success of Money Heist (2019-2021) proved that the Spanish-language audience was waiting to be tapped on a global scale. It’s similar to how the streamer has been making content from the Far East (Japan, Korea, China) part of its global strategy, resulting in big hits like Squid Game.
You can stream No One Saw Us Leave on Netflix.
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