Michelle Pfeiffer, Viola Davis and Gillian Anderson, powerful women in the White House in the trailer for "The First Ladies"

"Four years from now, I don't want to look back and ask myself, 'What happened to me living in this house?'" says Michelle Obama, played by Viola Davis.

The residence in question is none other than the White House.

In the trailer for the series

, unveiled on Thursday February 17 by the Showtime channel, three successive first ladies - Betty Ford, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, Michelle Obama, and Eleanor Roosevelt, played by Gillian Anderson - discover the mysteries of power, and the heavy toll imposed on them.

The series, signed Aaron Cooley (

), thus highlights the joys and intimate dramas experienced by these wives of presidents, between adultery, influence games, upset family life, social pressures and the quest for identity.

"The first lady must be a special kind of woman", launches Betty Ford, who was the wife of Gérard R. Ford and "first lady" from 1974 to 1977. The crossed destinies of three legendary women bear witness to this.

Read alsoIn pictures, Gillian Anderson, Viola Davis and Michelle Pfeiffer play three first ladies in the series “The First Lady”

"I'm not one of your girlfriends"

When Michelle Obama struggles to choose her team and the causes she will defend, she is called to order by her husband Barack (OT Fagbenle), who tells her not to "pull the strings" behind the scenes.

The First Lady is worried, in parallel, about the threats of who hovers over her daughters.

Betty Ford refuses, for her part, to adopt an erased personality.

“I will be there for you, but I will be myself,” she assures her husband Gerald (Aaron Eckhart).

Before striking: "They can throw me out, but they can't make me something that I'm not."

For her part, Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady from 1933 to 1945) is also fighting to make her voice heard, and shine by herself.

"Don't get mad at me," she told her husband Franklin (Kiefer Sutherland).

I'm not one of your girlfriends, I'm your wife."

Before adding: “You are the husband of a woman who has a mind and a life of her own.”

Spectators will be able to discover the tribulations of these mythical First Ladies from April 17, the date of broadcast of the first episode on Showtime.