原片名中的Conceiving有“构想”和“怀孕”之意，Ada则是19世纪人拜伦之女，在计算机出现100多年前写出了第一个电脑程序。1993年女科学家艾米通过电脑追寻到了散落在时空里的Ada的信息，于是电脑成了阴阳交流的一个桥梁……

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Emmy Coer, un genio de la informática, idea un método de comunicación con el pasado, recurriendo a las ondas información inmortales. Ella se acerca al mundo de Ada Lovelace, fundadora de la idea de un lenguaje informático y defensora de las posibilidades de la "máquina diferencial".