This year's most acclaimed film fiction.

In 1962, Elisabeth Pocito, a young child who grew up in an orphanage, hid his entire life and worked as a janitor in a night shift at the Ocam Air and Space Research Center in Baltimore. I was living.

One day, however, Elisha sees something unseen, which is the most sensitive asset in the laboratory, the amphibian. He was captured in the Amazon for research during the Cold War and was a remarkable person with an outstanding ability to understand language and feelings. Elisha could not keep him away, and they began to communicate with each other through sign language. Not long after, their emotions turned into love, and Elisha reached an amphibian who was the only reason for his life.

However, Richard Strickland, a soldier who was persistently searching for amphibian humans in the Amazon, tried to take him out of the way to prevent the Russians from abducting amphibian humans, and Elisha took all the risks to keep his love. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisha plans to escape the amphibian, and the Russians and Strickland chase them.


Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combines their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking love story.

Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center's most sensitive asset: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and understanding emotions ... and Elisa can not keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa's sole reason to live.

But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming. The story of the two-tiered release-one story interpreted by two artists in the independent medium of literature and film-The Shape of Water is unlike anything you've ever read or seen.