The first season of the German historical war drama Barbarians (2020) tells a fictionalized, highly emotional story based on the real-world . It focuses on the conflict between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire, centering on three characters whose lives are intertwined:
A fierce princess of the Cherusci tribe who seeks to unite the fractured Germanic clans against Rome.
The story kicks off when Folkwin and Thusnelda rob a Roman camp, causing an escalation that draws Ari into a struggle between his adoptive father (the Roman governor Varus) and his birth family.
