The trailer for Michelle Obama’s surprise documentary is here

If you’ve already whipped through the Hillary doc (perhaps while wiping away rage tears?) and felt your heart open up during Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana (she seriously does write all those songs!), then the upcoming Michelle Obama documentary might be just what your soul needs right about now. Or at the very least, it could be the movie young people at a crossroads everywhere should watch, if the trailer is any indication.Netflix announced on April 27 that it is turning the 24-city book tour for the former First Lady’s best-selling memoir, Becoming, into a film, and it’s coming at fans sooner than they thought: May 6. Of course, because a surprise Michelle Obama documentary (also titled Becoming, BTW) isn’t a great enough start to the week for fans, the streaming service has also dropped the first official trailer to coincide with the news.

I’m excited to share that on May 6, @Netflix will release BECOMING, a documentary directed by Nadia Hallgren that shares the stories of the amazing people I met after the release of my memoir. During this difficult time, I hope you’ll find some inspiration and joy in this film. pic.twitter.com/fqsIbhXYeL

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) April 27, 2020

The short clip features Obama speaking to a youth group in Philadelphia, as she explains in a voiceover how much she craves longer interactions with young people and how, through community events during the book tour, she’s hoping to get “a little taste” of that. When one girl asks her what it’s like to try and get back on track after her husband’s presidency, she relates it back to them. “It’s not getting back on track, but it’s creating my next track. I’m doing what you’re doing. I’m figuring out what I want to do, what do I care about? It takes time to process your life and figure out what it all means.”When Becoming hit bookshelves in 2018 it skyrocketed to the top of charts and became the best-selling book that year. The memoir focuses on Obama’s life on a personal and professional level (including that time she lived in the White House for eight years), and has sold more than 10 million copies to date. “So little of who I am happened in those eight years,” she also says in the clip. “So much more of who I was happened before.”Naturally the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground Productions, is producing the documentary, which is directed by Nadia Hallgren (She’s the Ticket). It’s safe to say the company has a pretty good track record too—their first project under that banner, American Factory, took home an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in February. You know, when televised awards shows were still happening. One thing is for sure, and that’s that Obama knows how to read a room. “During this difficult time, I hope you’ll find some inspiration and joy in this film,” she said in her official Tweet confirming the doc.“Those months I spent traveling — meeting and connecting with people in cities across the globe — drove home the idea that what we share in common is deep and real and can’t be messed with,” Obama said in a statement, as per TVLine. “In groups large and small, young and old, unique and united, we came together and shared stories, filling those spaces with our joys, worries, and dreams. We processed the past and imagined a better future. In talking about the idea of ‘becoming,’ many of us dared to say our hopes out loud.”Sounds like the groundwork for inspiration and joy for sure.[video_embed id='-1']RELATED: Common received dating advice from Michelle Obama[/video_embed]