After serving a few years in prison, former burglar Selina Lang is released. Now wanting to be straight, Selina sets out to find herself a job. But she is totally unaware that her record is preventing her from working and seeing her young son Cameron. When she steals a powerful suit, she quickly returns it only to find herself arrested again. But a mysterious woman named Harriet Pym has other ideas for her. Pym explains that it has the power to shrink in size and increase in strength due to a special formula called the Pym Particle. She was once its owner and called himself Ant-Woman. Unfortunately during her SHIELD days, Pym discovers that others wanted to replicate her design, and during a mission she suffered nerve damage. Now Pym wants to use Selina to being the new Ant-Woman because her former apprentice Daniela Cross is working to replicate the formula for her own evil purposes. So Selina and Pym, along with Pym's ex-husband Jamie must plan a heist that will stop Cross and save the world from certain chaos.