Soldier Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who has a happy and fulfilling life, hides a lingering shadow in his heart. 15 years ago, he lived in Japan with his father Joey (Bryan Cranston) and his mother Sandra (Juliette Binoche). His parents worked in a large nuclear power plant. On the birthday of Ford's father, a sudden disaster destroyed the nuclear power plant. His mother died in the disaster. The government concealed the truth and blocked the area in the name of preventing nuclear radiation. But Joey noticed something abnormal from all kinds of anomalies. For fifteen years, he has been trying to uncover the mystery of the disaster that day, and finally discovered that it was all caused by a monster as huge as a mountain. The monster Godzilla wakes up from his slumber, and unpredictable disasters sweep in...