The beautiful, enigmatic and brilliant scientist, Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping), has the spectacular proof that the frightening beings that we dismiss as figments of our imagination are indeed real. With her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, her fearless daughter Ashley and quirky tech-whiz Henry, Magnus uses a unique combination of instinct, medicine and cutting edge technology to seek, study and protect the clandestine population of strange and sometimes terrifying beings, known as “abnormals”, which hide among humans. There are monsters loose in the world. And they are the key to the future of our race.