In 1944, in the latter part of World War II, the vast majority of southern European countries, including Spain, were still shrouded in the haze of the Franco Fascist dictatorship and civil war. However, Spain, which has been ravaged by the rebels led by Franco for several years, still has many areas that have not yet quelled the war. In the mountains of Navarre in the north, there is still a small group of rebels still resisting. Therefore, Spain The army is still hunting and killing communists and democrats everywhere. Ophelia, a 12-year-old girl, lost her father in the war, and her mother, Carmen, was about to give birth to her stepfather’s child. She and her mother who was pregnant with Liujia went to the north to meet her stepfather, Vader. Vinda’s fascist officer under the Franco dictatorship is responsible for tracking down local guerrilla groups and leftists in northern Spain, and ruthlessly suppressing them by hanging, castration and other brutal means. Vinda’s only Fun is also to study various instruments of torture to torture and mutilate dissidents who have been arrested. Picking up Carmen's mother and daughter to live together is not so much a shared family relationship, as it is just to monitor Carmen and give birth to his flesh and blood.
On the way Ophelia went with her mother to find her stepfather, she accidentally encountered a dragonfly-like elf. The elves followed her all the way to the army headquarters where Vader was stationed. There, he witnessed the ruthless stepfather and his party members doing evil every day and took pleasure in it, and the mother was sick in bed again, and Ophelia, who was troubled by loneliness and the pain of witnessing brutality, began to immerse in her own fantasy Talking about masturbation, in order to escape the helplessness of reality, you can only enter the magical world in your imagination. The elves lead her to an abandoned mill. Here is a mysterious labyrinth. There is also a touching story about this labyrinth. It is said that a long time ago, in a mysterious underground kingdom without lies and pain, there lived a longing A princess of the human world, she has always dreamed of seeing the blue sky with her own eyes, feeling the soft breeze, and being able to bathe in the sun carefree. Finally one day, she escaped from her entourage guarding her, but when she walked out of the ground, the strong sunlight blinded her eyes and erased all her past memories day by day. She forgot that she was Whoever came from, the body suffered from the cold of the real world, as well as disease and pain, and finally the princess died. But her father, the king of the underground kingdom, always believed that the soul of her daughter would return to him one day. She just used the body of another person to exist in a different place and at a different time, and eventually would return. To the underground.
The king waited for the soul of his daughter until the end of life and the end of the world. It is said that the princess finally returned to her father's kingdom, and with her fair and kind heart, ruled this country for a long time, and her people loved her very much. The place where the elves led Ophelia to is the entrance left by the legendary god of Underworld for her daughter to return, and the gatekeeper of the labyrinth-the half-orc Faun with goat horns and transparent eyes is waiting for her arrival. , The mystery in the fantasy did exist. What surprised Ophelia was that Faun told her that she was the lost princess of the underground kingdom, but to return to her kingdom, Ophelia had to accept three challenges in the maze. He gave Ophelia a book and asked her to complete the task as stated in the book when she was alone. The first task is to rescue an ancient tree, because there is an ancient toad living at the root of the tree, and the ancient tree is dying. In order to accomplish this task, Ophelia soiled the new clothes her mother gave her. When completing the second task, Ophelia failed because she did not withstand the temptation, and almost took her life. At this time, his stepfather also stepped up an even crazier mopping offensive on the ground. Above and below ground, the struggle with nightmares blurs the boundary between fantasy and reality. When accepting the last test, an accident happened, and Ophelia finally died smiling in her beautiful magical world.
