From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes THE SHAPE OF WATER an otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon Richard Jenkins Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.