During the Cold War, the mute Elisa is employed in a high-security laboratory of the American government, where she goes about her work lonely and isolated. But when she and her colleague and friend Zelda discover a top-secret experiment being carried out in the lab, Elisa's life changes forever. She befriends the mysterious fish creature that is being held captive in a tank. Her feelings for the creature become more and more intense and together with her neighbor Giles she finally decides to free the amphibian man from the hands of the government - but love is not under a good star, because now the couple is mercilessly hunted by the military and the laboratory manager Strickland, who want to use the extraordinary creature and its healing powers in a war against the Soviets... New product