In
the 1960s, Student of Cambridge University and future physicist Stephen Hawking
(Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with colleague collegian Jane Wilde (Felicity
Jones). At 21, Hawking learns that he has motor neuron illness. Despite this and with Jane at his side he starts an motivated
study of time, of which he has very little left, according to his doctor. He
and Jane defy terrible odds and break new ground in the fields of medicine and
science, achieving more than either could hope to imagine.