His latest movie, «The Shape of Water» — the story of a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an aquatic humanoid creature being held captive in a secret government
laboratory during the Cold War — is, perhaps needless to say, one of the latter.
During the
Cold War America of the early 1960s, a government operative brings a mysterious «asset» to a high - security
laboratory for observation and experimentation.