In 1954,
U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (
Leonardo DiCaprio) and his newly assigned partner Chuck Aule (
Mark Ruffalo), go to the Ashecliff Hospital for the
criminally insane on
Shutter Island located in
Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient who apparently vanished from a locked room. Dr.
John Cawley (
Ben Kingsley), the head psychiatrist, explains that Rachel was institutionalized after drowning her three children.
During the search for Rachel, Teddy sees a lighthouse but is told it has already been searched. He asks to see the hospital personnel files; Cawley refuses, but allows the Marshals to question the staff. They are frustrated to learn that Rachel's psychiatrist, Dr. Sheehan, left on vacation after her disappearance. That night, Teddy has a strange dream in which he sees his wife Dolores
Chanal (
Michelle Williams), who was killed in a fire two years earlier. She tells Teddy that Rachel is still on the island, as is Andrew Laeddis, the
arsonist responsible for her own death....
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