The Shape of Water

Set in 1962, The Shape of Water follows Elisa Esposito, a mute janitor living a quiet, lonely life on the night shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Her world is small, held together by the kindness of her coworker Zelda and her gentle neighbor Giles—until the night she discovers the Center’s most secret experiment: an amphibious man taken from the Amazon and imprisoned for Cold War research.

The creature is both frightening and extraordinary, capable of understanding, emotion, and language. Drawn to him, Elisa begins communicating through sign language, and their bond quickly deepens into love. For the first time, she feels truly seen.

But danger closes in from every side. Richard Strickland—the relentless soldier who captured the creature—intends to dissect him before the Soviets can intervene. Refusing to lose the only being who has ever understood her, Elisa devises a daring plan to free him, relying on Zelda and Giles as the world tightens its grip.

Blending romance, suspense, and myth, The Shape of Water is a luminous reimagining of a classic monster tale.