Primarily based on Alisdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the identical identify, the movie takes place at an unspecified date, however in all probability the top of the 1800s. A lady (Emma Stone), wearing royal blue silk, throws herself from Tower Bridge. The next scenes are in black and white: we’re launched to Bella Baxter (Stone) and her adoptive father Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She’s a childlike determine, enjoying the piano along with her arms and ft, spitting out meals she dislikes, stumbling by means of the home like a toddler. He’s an eminent surgeon with horrible scars crisscrossing his face and to Bella he’s God (brief for Godwin, however you get the image).