The action begins in the 1920s and ends in the 1940s and focuses on the most creative stage of the life of Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) - a brilliant inventor and millionaire with a flair for business. It was a time of implementing his boldest and most unlikely ideas in the field of flying and film production, as well as a time of many stormy romances and brutal fights with corporations. It was then that Howard Hughes, a man with great ambitions, first encountered the price of fame, wealth and his own obsession and perfectionism.