Lonely teenager Mia gets hooked on the thrills of conjuring spirits through a ceramic hand, but when she is confronted by a soul claiming to be her dead mother, she unleashes a plague of supernatural forces, and struggles to decide who she can trust: the living or the dead.

When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.

许多年前，亚特兰蒂斯女王（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）和人类相知相恋，共同孕育了爱情的结晶——后来被陆地人称为海王的亚瑟·库瑞（杰森·莫玛 Jason Momoa 饰）。在成长的过程中，亚瑟接受海底导师维科（威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰）的严苛训练，时刻渴望去看望母亲，然而作为混血的私生子这却是奢望。与此同时，亚瑟的同母异父兄弟奥姆（帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰）成为亚特兰蒂斯的国王，他不满陆地人类对大海的荼毒与污染，遂谋划联合其他海底王国发动对陆地的全面战争。为了阻止他的野心，维科和奥姆的未婚妻湄拉（艾梅柏·希尔德 Amber Heard 饰）将亚瑟带到海底世界。