The Strays (2023) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Biracial deputy headmistress who passes for white and despises blackness. Revealed to be Cheryl Clark, who abandoned her first two children to escape discrimination. Attempts to pay off her returning...
Neve's white husband and father of Sebastian and Mary. Threatens divorce upon discovering Neve's secret payments to the teenagers. Later coerced by Carl to lift heavy gym weights, resulting in his app...
Neve's abandoned son who assumes the alias Marvin and works as a school janitor. Manipulates Sebastian into violence, confronts Neve over being paid off, floods the house, and causes Ian's death by dr...
Neve's abandoned daughter who takes the alias Abigail and works as an office assistant. Befriends Mary, joins the mission to confront Neve, and intervenes during the family crisis by suggesting a boar...
Neve and Ian's quarter-black son. Initially manipulated by Carl into bullying a schoolmate. Left standing in the flooded living room after Neve abandons the household.
Neve and Ian's daughter. Befriended by Dione and invited to a hotel party. Abandoned alongside Sebastian when Neve leaves with the delivery driver.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Ian is described as the father of Sebastian and Mary, who are Neve and Ian's children.
Ian is described as the father of Sebastian and Mary, who are Neve and Ian's children.
Carl and Dione are revealed to be Neve's two abandoned children. They arrive together on a mission to confront her.
The plot reveals that Dione is Neve's abandoned daughter. Dione follows Carl in confronting Neve and forcing a family gathering.
The revelation establishes that Neve is Cheryl and that Carl is her abandoned son. Carl confronts her after she tries to pay him off.
Mary is identified as Neve and Ian's daughter. Neve ultimately leaves Mary behind in the flooded house.
Sebastian is identified as one of Neve and Ian's children. He remains in the flooded living room after Neve leaves.
The plot identifies Ian as Neve's white husband. Neve rejects his calls in the opening scenes and later leaves the family home.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Carl demands that Ian accompany him to the family gym and coerces him into lifting increasingly heavy weights, which fall on Ian.
Dione befriends Mary and invites her to a hotel room for drinking and partying.
Carl befriends Sebastian and later convinces him to brutally attack his school bully after a basketball game.
A woman attempts to escape the identity and children she abandoned, but her past returns and destroys the family she built.
Directed by Nathaniel Martello-White
The Strays (2023) · 5.5/10 · thriller
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