Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground breaking work on the nature of time and the universe. This drama tells the story of a crucial period in Stephen Hawking’s life. In the course of two astonishing years he received a death sentence, fell in love, and solved the secret of the universe.
