Grave

Justine arrives at a prestigious veterinary school where her older sister Alexia is already a year ahead. Her parents are also veterinarians — this is simply what the family does. Justine is quiet, bookish, and strictly vegetarian, always has been. The school's hazing rituals are brutal. One tradition forces all first-years to eat raw rabbit kidney. Justine refuses. Alexia pressures her. She swallows it.

Something changes. Justine develops an overwhelming, compulsive craving for meat — raw meat, more and more of it. Her skin breaks out in a rash. She eats what she can find and begins to understand that what she is craving is not limited to animals. She forms a complicated, charged friendship with her gay roommate Adrien, spending late nights with him in a closeness neither of them quite names.

One night Justine and Alexia are shaving each other's legs. Scissors slip — Alexia's finger is severed. In a trance, Justine picks it up and eats it. Alexia stares. It becomes clear that Alexia is much further along this path. She has been watching Justine's awakening, waiting. Alexia's own urges lead her to cause a car accident at night; she attacks the injured driver. Justine tries to pull her off and bites Adrien in the chaos, drawing blood.

The final revelation comes at home. Justine finds her father covered in old scars — systematic, healed, accumulated over years. He tells her the truth: her mother has been eating him, piece by piece, for as long as they've been together. He accepts it. He loves her. This is what the family is. He wanted Justine to know so she could be careful — so she could find someone who chooses it willingly.

Justine leaves carrying that knowledge. The film ends with her going back into the world — not as a monster, but as a person with an inheritance she now understands and must learn to live with.