A dramatized biography of Lady Ada Lovelace (Tilda Swinton) daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers. Ada's story is told through Emmy (Francesca Faridany), a contemporary computer scientist who is researching artificial life. By using her won genetic code. Emmy is able to collapse time and link her world directly to Ada's. Realizing how parallel their lives are, she embarks on the task of "saving" Ada as the lines between the past and present, virtual reality and reality blur in the process.