Wilhelm (Jonathan Bailey) and Jacob Grimm (Nicholas Hoult) are writing a historical manuscript for a local duke (Stanley Tucci), but the project is late because Wilhelm spends his time gathering fairy tales. When Wilhelm drops part of the manuscript in a creek, he catches pneumonia while retrieving it. Near death, he dreams of various characters that want to be written - upon his recovery, a shaken Jacob agrees to work on a book of fairy tales with him, beginning the brothers' illustrious career.
