In the 1960 comb ridge university student and future physicist stephen hawking eddie redmayne falls in love with fellow collegian jane wilde felicity jones at 21 hawking learns that he has motor neuron disease despite this and with jane at his side he begins an ambitious 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 hold to imagine