Doug Jones, Guillermo del Toro, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg
In early-sixties Baltimore, during the peak of the space race and the Cold War, Elisa Esposito works as a night-time janitor in a top-secret underground research facility. Elisa, a woman with a speech disability leading a lonely life, spends her days with only two friends: Zelda, her co-worker who does all the talking for both of them and Giles, her ageing neighbour. One day, an Amazonian Amphibian Man arrives at the facility and is kept in a confined water tank. The creature soon becomes the centre of attention and a mystical bond forms between the two species. However, the creature's survival depends on an unlikely saviour. Can there be a future when one is trapped?—Nick Riganas