The film tells the story of African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who, while working in the segregated West Area Computers division of the Langley Research Center, helped NASA in the Space Race. 

Using their calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to make a full orbit around the Earth. Thus, the three women become the first African-American women to achieve previously impossible goals. In addition to Katherine Johnson's aforementioned achievement, Dorothy Vaughan became the first female supervisor of IBM services at the Agency, while Mary Jackson became the first female US aerospace engineer.

In addition, right after the screening, some of the alumni members from the field of engineering will give a short talk about the experiences and difficulties they have encountered in the workplace simply because they are women. 

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