Le film est raconté à travers les yeux de la petite Maisie, 7 ans, ballotée au coeur d'une bataille pour sa garde qui oppose sa mère Susanna (une ancienne rock star) et son père Beale (un vendeur d'art).

A look at Charles Darwin, his book On The Origin of Species, and how his theory of evolution is explained. It includes Darwin's observations through work on the Human Genome Project.