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London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick, who is severely deformed, in a Victorian freak show in London's East End. Behind his looks, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost.
The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie.
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That's the very movement of the story itself.
This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast.