The story takes place in Chicago, an industrial city in the United States, in the year 2054. This time the film does not describe the story of robot riots, monster attacks, alien wounds, etc. But in the future decades after the highly developed science and technology, people can travel through time and space by space-time spacecraft to reach the mysterious Cretaceous era that can only be mentioned in nature and history classes before, and it is not simple for people to get there. Research work such as scientific expeditions has reached the level of casual travel and sightseeing. However, history and nature use their irresistible power to once again give ignorant human beings a major lesson and even a devastating blow. Because, a hunter on a trip to the Cretaceous accidentally trampled a butterfly to death. But don't underestimate this butterfly. It happens to be an important link in the evolutionary chain of human development. Its death will greatly affect or even destroy the entire human race and the great civilizations created by human beings for generations. Fortunately, the accident was discovered in time. Thus, the great action to save mankind began. Travis the hunter (Edward Burns), caravan owner Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), and Sonia Rand (Katherine McCormack), the inventor of the time-travel computer. Formed the backbone of the rescue team.
Then, after a careful plan, the rescue team carried various scientific research detection equipment and self-defense weapons and equipment through the spaceship to the prehistoric Cretaceous period where the incident occurred, and returned the life of the crucial butterfly. However, the rescue operation was not so smooth. In the process of searching and saving, the rescue team encountered unprecedented difficulties and tribulations. Unfamiliar natural environments, brutal dinosaurs, ferocious prehistoric monsters. all threaten to save the lives of the team members.
Time goes on and on, human beings are facing the test of death, and even the majestic city of Chicago is instantly shrouded in dense clouds. It seems that all signs indicate the demise of human beings. The development of human civilization is really due to a Buried by a little butterfly?
