What makes a mind exceptional? Superhuman: Genius sets out to answer that question, weighing three competing explanations: relentless practice, the accidents of childhood development, and the older idea of innate or even divine gift. The film moves through case studies and expert commentary, looking at prodigies, savants, and high achievers to test which explanation actually holds up. Rather than settling on a single cause, it treats genius as a puzzle with overlapping answers, showing how early exposure to a skill, unusual brain wiring, and sheer repetition can each produce startling results in different people. Researchers and psychologists appear on camera to unpack studies on IQ, memory, and creativity, grounding the abstract question in specific examples of what a gifted brain can do that an ordinary one cannot. It is less interested in crowning a definition of genius than in showing how many different paths seem to lead there.