The rise and resurgence of Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a French-Caribbean violinist and composer (sometimes referred to by the nickname "Black Mozart") who rose to fame through his musical prodigy. But a complicated love life and the racism of the ancien regime leads to a falling out with Marie Antoinette and Saint-Georges realizes that things must change.
In 1961, mathematician Katherine Johnson works as a human computer in the gender and racial segregated division of NASA. Katherine, alongside her fellow scientists and engineers and with the help of her female colleagues aid in the launch of one of the greatest operations in history: sending astronaut John Glenn into orbit.