Bird Box

Malorie Hayes, a detached and pregnant artist, watches news reports of a mysterious mass-suicide epidemic spreading across Europe. Before she can process what it means, the phenomenon reaches her California town — people who glimpse an unseen entity are instantly compelled to kill themselves in the most immediately available way. Malorie barely escapes with her life, taken in by a group of survivors sheltering in a large suburban home belonging to a man named Douglas.

The house becomes a pressure-cooker of personalities: kind-hearted Tom, the assertive Douglas, a young couple, an older man named Greg, and others. They board the windows and survive by feel and sound, venturing outside only blindfolded. A tense early excursion to a nearby grocery store — navigated using a car's GPS with cameras blocked — establishes the brutal rules of this world. People infected or driven mad by the entity do not die; instead they become its evangelists, trying to force others to open their eyes.

Greg fatally attempts to view the entity through security camera footage and dies. The group is further whittled down by paranoia, outside "infected" intruders who breach the house, and increasingly hopeless odds. Tom and Malorie grow close and eventually become partners; both babies — Malorie's own and the child of a woman who died in childbirth — survive under their care.

Five years later, the film's second timeline catches up: Tom has been killed defending the family from a group of infected attackers, and Malorie, now alone with the two children she calls simply "Boy" and "Girl," must make a days-long blindfolded river journey to a community she's heard about on the radio. The river trek is harrowing — rapids, wildlife, and infected pursuers all threaten them.

They reach the sanctuary: a school for the blind, whose population was naturally immune to the entity's visual trigger. Malorie, finally allowing herself emotional openness, gives the children their true names: Olympia (after their mother) and Tom (after her lost partner). The film ends on a note of fragile, hard-won hope — the horror unresolved globally, but these survivors finding a pocket of safety and connection.