少年古河因加入近腾集团的实验项目，进入全球顶尖高中近腾高中，并与天才少年叶文成为好友。近腾高中充满谜团，年轻女教师神秘失踪，各种不符合常理的物理现象，让古河等人感到了学校的异常，古河、叶文逃出学校，发现近腾高中竟然建立在远离地球的空间站中。与此同时，地球陷入停电、山火等危机中，各地出现不明石碑，石碑上出现了与人类知识体系截然不同的外星谜题。人类创立“263计划”，将谜题变成考题交给远在空间站的近腾学生，希望借助他们强大的学习能力解开石碑的秘密。古河眼中的纳米芯片意外使他成为外星人与人类之间的唯一联系。古河、叶文等人与他国师生齐心协力解开谜题，发现地球的灾难是因为外星人需要逃离氦闪收集能量导致，九死一生后，古河等人利用电子发射器帮助外星人脱困，也使地球重获新生。

该片讲述了一个三个月大的婴儿和四十一岁的Alice相遇的故事。

After winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for Son of Saul, the Hungarian director is working on his new movie, Az árva (The Orphan) with the same production team as before, but with another company – wrote HVG 360. 　　The base crew of his new film is the same as it was in Son of Saul (2015) and Sunset (2018). The screenplay is written by László Nemes Jeles, Clara Royer, and the film will be produced by Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna and co-produced by Judit Stalter. The production company will be Laokoon Film. 　　The development of The Orphan was supported by the National Film Institute (NFI) in October 2020 with seven million forints. This amount will be used by the creators to finalize the script, among other things.