Privileged couple Louise and Kasper live off the grid in a home in the woods. Unable to conceive, they arrange for their Romanian maid Elena to act as a surrogate mother and be paid for it. But as Elena becomes mysteriously sicker while pregnant, fears mount about what may be growing inside her.

Psychic disturbances abound beneath the seemingly benign Danish landscapes in this creepily atmospheric pregnancy horror from Ali Abbasi. With nightmarish and hallucinatory visuals, Shelley serves a potent brew of the domestic and supernatural, laced with a biting critique of migrant exploitation.