14-year-old Miles Morales is reluctantly enrolled in an elite New York City boarding school but would rather hang out with his Brooklyn friends. After he's accidentally bitten by a radioactive spider, Miles starts to experience changes he can't explain. Retracing his steps to a mysterious underground lab, Miles discovers Peter Parker/Spider-Man trying to stop greedy crime boss Kingpin from opening a hole in the space-time continuum, which could destroy New York. They must work as a team to defeat Kingpin and return to their own universes. - Common Sense Media