It’s the mid 80’s, and mentally-superpowered supergenius Charles Xavier has opened a secret academic venue in New York City to support the world’s discrimiated mutant community. However, trouble brews when two dangerous forces from Charles’ past show up, one of them being a dangerous anti-mutant military general with presidential connections, and the other being a fellow mutant and former friend bent on the erradication of Charles’ new mutant students.