影片根据同名小说《A Wrinkle in Time》改编，讲述在科学家父亲(克里斯·派恩饰)意外失踪以后，小女主Meg在 Mrs. Who (敏迪·卡琳饰), Mrs. Whatsit (瑞希饰), Mrs. Which (奥普拉饰)这三位奇异的仙灵生物的帮助下，跨越时间、空间、维度，在黑暗中寻求光明，开启了一段奇幻寻父之旅的故事。
After a random school shootout leaves a scientist's daughter and the shooter dead, he uses nano-robots to look into a psychopath's memories to find reasons for violence and a way to treat it.
