Joseph Carey Merrick is a young man delicious, sentimental and gay. At the age of 21 months, his body begins to bud. As an adult, he has no other choice, to save his life, that occur in the fairs under the name of Elephant Man.
In 1884, Joseph welcomes in his fairground stall a visitor a very special. This is Frederick Treves, a surgeon at the London hospital. Fascinated by this ” monster “, he believes in completely idiotic, the doctor does come to his hospital department for the auscultate in all the seams. Everything, every deformation is measured. Ri…