In the film The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet 3D 2013, a 12-year-old cartography prodigy from a remote Montana ranch builds a perpetual motion machine. When the Smithsonian Institution awards him the prestigious Baird Prize, mistaking him for an adult, he secretly embarks on a solo cross-country train journey to Washington, D.C., to accept it. His adventure brings him into contact with colorful strangers and forces him to confront the recent, tragic death of his twin brother. The journey becomes a quest for understanding, revealing that the world's most important maps are not of places, but of the human heart and family bonds.