The heroine is an abandoned baby found by the river with three bizarre scars on her neck, which makes her a mute girl who has to rely on sign language to communicate. In 1962 during the Cold War, the heroine works as a cleaner in a secret U.S. government laboratory in Baltimore, where there is a mysterious amphibian man to whom the heroine often brings some food, and with whom she gradually builds up a strange emotional connection.
With the help of a friend, the heroine takes a risk to free the creature from the lab, and when the heroine is ready to release the amphibian, the two are shot by their pursuers, and the amphibian soon heals itself from its wounds, takes the heroine and jumps into the water with her, and helps the heroine recover from her wounds in the water, and turns the three scars on her neck into gills so that she can breathe underwater, and the heroine and the amphibian live happily ever after.
2017 / USA Mexico / Drama Romance Fantasy / Guillermo del Toro / Sally Hawkins Doug Jones
Plot Synopsis:
Set in 1963, during the Cold War, mute girl Eliza (Sally Hawkins) works in a government laboratory as a cleaning lady there.
As a young girl, a serious illness takes away Eliza’s voice, and she lives a solitary life in silence to this day, with only the old painter (Richard Jenkins) and her coworker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) as her only friends.
One day, a high-alert siren goes off in the lab and a mysterious tank filled with water is brought in, and Eliza is shocked to discover that the tank holds a grotesque half-human, half-fish creature.
Led by Richard (Michael Shannon), a team of scientists want to refine substances in the creature that could create a biological weapon, but to Elisa, it’s nothing more than a lonely life form like herself.
As time passes, feelings actually develop between Elsa and the monster.
