The disappearance of an inmate at a psychiatric facility on an island necessitates an investigation by US Marshals Edward “Ted” Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who make their approach throughout the uneven waters below a grim, grey-blue sky, and shortly discover themselves cloistered with the ability’s director Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) who, in laying down the legal guidelines of the island, seems to be a hurdle moderately than a serving to hand.
The Marshals conduct interviews and stroll the beat across the facility within the hope of taking place upon a clue. They discover nothing. Amid this, Daniels confesses to Aule that he has an ulterior motive for coming to Shutter Island: to search out Andrew Laeddis, an arsonist whose actions led to the dying of Daniels’ spouse and who was subsequently dedicated to Shutter Island. The thriller thickens much more when the lacking inmate resurfaces, after which Daniels breaks into Ward C, declared out-of-bounds by Cawley. An inmate named George Noyce recognises him and alerts him about experiments being performed upon inmates within the lighthouse, whereas additionally advising warning, and a perpetual mistrust of everybody, together with Aule.
Daniels and Aule make for the lighthouse, however the latter disappears and Daniels winds up in a cave housing a girl who claims to be the lacking inmate who was earlier a member of the medical employees on the facility. She claims to have been dedicated when she found the reality in regards to the experiments. She warns Daniels that Cawley and Dr. Naehring (Max von Sydow) will attempt to have him dedicated too, and this risk crops up instantly upon Daniels’ return to the principle facility, when Cawley insists he arrived on Shutter Island by himself.