美国核医学教授查理为家庭放弃事业,却惨遭妻子和女儿抛弃——她们选择了他的情敌艾萨克。在饱受家人冷落后,他决意投身"独角兽计划",这项为治愈女儿神经骨骼胎记而设计的研究,本是他毕生的使命。然而妻子与女儿全然不知查理正为她们燃烧生命,重逢后反而将裂痕愈撕愈深,最终亲手毁掉查理留下的一切。当她们幡然醒悟时,只剩无法挽回的残局。The U.S. nuclear medical professor Charlie Clare quits his career for family, but is abandoned as his wife and daughter favor his love rival Isaac. After suffering his family’s ignorance, he decides to leave for the Unicorn Project, which he designed for healing his daughter’s neuro-skel birthmark as his life work. But unaware that Charlie’s burning his life for them, his wife and daughter deepen the rift with Charlie upon reunion and eventually destroy everything Charlie left for them with their own hands before realizing their errors, only to find it too late.