

If they want to keep their family together, they’ll have to combine all of their different skills, take on Child Allocation Bureau, and go up against the terrifying Cayman herself, all so they can retrieve their lost sibling and learn the real story about What Happened To Monday. All they want to do is bring home their sister safely, but what they find in their quest will lead to so much more than any of them could have ever anticipated.

His plan works swimmingly for several years, well into the girls’ adulthood, until one day, Monday doesn’t come home.įrantic that their little secret has been uncovered, the rest of the girls (all played by Noomi Rapace) begin their search for the truth. Monday can go out into the world as Karen on Monday, Tuesday can go out into the world on Tuesday, and so on and so forth. He gives each of his seven little girls a different name of the week, which not only serves as their true identity, but also tells them which day of the week they are allowed to exit the apartment and go outside into the world. That’s why when Terrence Settman ( Willem Dafoe)’s wife dies giving birth to their seven identical twins, he takes it upon himself to keep them hidden from the public eye and teaches them to all take on the same personality, Karen Settman, so that they are not discovered and taken away.

Told in the vein of a 1990s Paul Verhoeven movie, this film is set in a futuristic world where massive overpopulation has led to a one child per family policy, strictly kept in practice by government head Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close), men in suits round up any unauthorized siblings and haul them away to a lab where they are cryogenically frozen until a day when the world is better suited to hold them. Tommy Wirkola, the man who brought us such genre gems as Dead Snowand Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, is back with a brand new Netflix sci-fi thriller called What Happened to Monday, starring Noomi Rapace.
