Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is one of the top neurosurgeons in the world. A near fatal car accident leaves permanent nerve damage in his hands and he can no longer perform the brilliant surgery that made him famous. Western medicine fails to cure him and he heads East to Nepal where he believes someone called The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) can finally give him the cure he desperately seeks.
She doesn’t exactly offer him a cure, she only tells him “Forget everything you think you know,” and offers to teach him the mystic arts. Strange believes the whole thing is nonsense until The Ancient One sends him on a mind trip he will never forget. He becomes a student and quickly excels. A former student, Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) has gathered followers who seek to unleash the Dark Universe upon Earth and Doctor Strange may be the only one who can stop him.