Goldilocks entered the three bears' home to find the porridge either too hot, too cold, or just right. The Goldilocks Effect refers to the fact that the physical laws that govern the cosmos are just right. The smallest changes could threaten the fabric of existence. A physicist, Eric Carlyle, disappears. Carlyle's lab assistant enlists the aid of Daniel Filby, a washed-up philosophy professor who is Carlyle's closest friend, to find the missing scientist...