霍金（埃迪·雷德梅恩 Eddie Redmayne 饰）和简（菲丽希缇·琼斯 Felicity Jones 饰）相识于一场舞会上，两人初次见面交谈甚欢，颇有一番相见恨晚的意味。之后，霍金大胆的邀请简参加舞会，二人以此为契机，陷入了热恋之中。

A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history's most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA.