根据沃尔特·特维斯的小说改编，这个成长故事探索了天才背后真正的代价。20 世纪 50 年代末，年幼的贝丝·哈蒙（安雅·泰勒-乔伊饰）被遗弃并托付给肯塔基州的一家孤儿院。她具有惊人的国际象棋天赋，同时对政府提供给孩童的镇静剂上瘾。贝丝被自己心中的恶魔所困扰，在药物和痴迷的双重作用下，她变成了一个令人印象深刻、技艺高超且富有魅力的弃儿，并决心打破男性主导的国际象棋界建立的传统界限。
Plot Summary:Nine year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.
