Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking love story.
 
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito - mute her whole life, orphaned as a child - is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Centre.
 
Until, 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, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent... and Elisa can't keep away. using sign language, the two learn to communicate. When affection turns to love, Elisa begins to hatch a plan for the creature's escape. And as outside forces start to press in, she has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved...