Raw (2017) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A vegetarian veterinary student confronts a violent hunger that exposes her family's hidden condition and transforms her bond with her sister.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

Blood Welcomes the Vegetarian

Justine enters veterinary school and meets Adrien, while Alexia introduces her to the institution's humiliating hazing culture. The forced consumption of a raw rabbit kidney begins Justine's physical and moral transformation.

Key Events

• Justine Enters Veterinary School — Justine begins her first semester at the school attended by Alexia and once attended by their parents. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Father, Mother Location: Veterinary school
• First Meeting With Adrien — Justine meets Adrien, who becomes her roommate. Characters: Justine, Adrien Location: Student dormitory
• Hazing Week Begins — New students are forced into a week-long hazing ritual. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Adrien Location: Veterinary school party
• The Parents' Blood Photo — Alexia shows Justine old photographs of students covered in blood, including their parents. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Veterinary school party
• Raw Rabbit Kidney Trial — Alexia forces vegetarian Justine to eat a raw rabbit kidney. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Adrien Location: Veterinary school

Hunger Breaks the Boundary

A rash, meat cravings, raw chicken, and the expulsion of hair reveal that Justine's body is changing. After Alexia loses a finger, Justine crosses a new boundary by tasting and eating it.

Key Events

• The Rash Appears — Justine develops an itchy rash and later receives cream after a doctor calls it food poisoning. Characters: Justine, Adrien Location: Student dormitory
• Meat Cravings Begin — Justine begins craving meat and unsuccessfully tries to steal a burger. Characters: Justine Location: Veterinary school cafeteria
• Secret Gas Station Meal — Justine and Adrien travel to a gas station so she can eat meat away from others. Characters: Justine, Adrien Location: Gas station
• Raw Chicken and Hair — Justine eats raw chicken and later vomits a long bundle of hair. Characters: Justine Location: Student dormitory
• Alexia Loses A Finger — During a bikini wax, Alexia accidentally cuts off her own finger with sharp scissors. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Student dormitory
• Justine Tastes The Finger — Justine tastes Alexia's blood and begins eating the severed finger. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Student dormitory

Desire Becomes Predatory

Alexia stages a violent lesson, but Justine's appetite continues to grow. At parties and in the dormitory, hunger becomes entangled with sexuality, culminating in the lip bite and the dangerous encounter with Adrien.

Key Events

• Alexia Stages A Road Lesson — Alexia causes a car to crash and eats a passenger to teach Justine a lesson. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Deserted road
• Party Lip Bite — During another hazing ritual, Justine bites a boy's lower lip while kissing him. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Veterinary school party
• Lip Fragment Consumed — Justine removes a piece of the boy's lip from her teeth and eats it. Characters: Justine Location: Student dormitory shower
• Desire Turns Dangerous — Justine and Adrien have sex, and she bites her own arm while trying to bite him. Characters: Justine, Adrien Location: Student dormitory

The Morgue Exposes Everything

Alexia takes Justine to the morgue and encourages her predatory behavior before Adrien shows Justine the recorded humiliation. The sisters' confrontation turns into a brutal biting fight.

Key Events

• The Morgue Party — Alexia takes an intoxicated Justine to the morgue after another party. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: School morgue
• The Morgue Video — Adrien shows Justine a video of Alexia encouraging her to bite a corpse's arm. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Adrien Location: Student dormitory
• Sisters Fight By Biting — Justine confronts Alexia, and they bite each other before other students separate them. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Adrien Location: Student dormitory

A Family Answer

Adrien is found dead, Alexia is imprisoned, and Justine returns home under the shadow of the crime. Father reveals that the sisters' condition belongs to a wider family history and offers Justine hope of finding a solution.

Key Events

• Adrien Found Dead — Justine wakes beside Adrien's body and finds Alexia bloody on the floor. Characters: Justine, Alexia, Adrien Location: Student dormitory
• The Sisters Clean Up — Justine cleans Alexia and herself after finding Adrien dead. Characters: Justine, Alexia Location: Student dormitory shower
• Alexia Is Imprisoned — Alexia is imprisoned for Adrien's murder, while Justine is sent home. Characters: Alexia, Adrien, Justine Location: Police custody
• Father Reveals The Family Secret — Father reveals his scars and explains the family's condition through his history with Mother. Characters: Justine, Father, Mother Location: Family home
• A Solution Remains Possible — Father tells Justine that she will find a solution to what is happening. Characters: Justine, Father Location: Family home

Story Breakdown

• School Arrival — Justine enters a new institution where family history and student rituals immediately shape her experience.
  • New Semester — Justine begins her first semester at veterinary school alongside Alexia.
  • Roommate Bond — Justine meets Adrien, who becomes her roommate and closest peer.
• Hazing Culture — The school welcomes new students through humiliating and increasingly violent rituals.
  • Blood Photographs — Alexia shows Justine old photographs of students covered in blood, including their parents.
  • Rabbit Kidney — Alexia forces the vegetarian Justine to eat a raw rabbit kidney.
• Body Awakening — Justine's body responds to the ritual with symptoms and cravings that challenge her identity.
  • Itching Rash — Justine develops a rash and receives a food-poisoning diagnosis.
  • Meat Cravings — She tries to steal a burger, visits a gas station, and eats raw chicken.
• Sisterly Violence — Alexia becomes both Justine's guide and the person who pushes her deepest into violence.
  • Severed Finger — Alexia accidentally cuts off her finger, which Justine tastes and eats.
  • Roadside Lesson — Alexia stages a car crash and eats a passenger to teach Justine.
• Predatory Desire — Justine's hunger merges with sexuality and begins threatening the people closest to her.
  • Lip Bite — Justine bites a boy's lower lip during a hazing-party kiss.
  • Dangerous Intimacy — During sex with Adrien, Justine bites her own arm while trying to bite him.
• Morgue Exposure — A public recording reveals Alexia's influence over Justine and destroys their fragile alliance.
  • Corpse Challenge — Alexia encourages Justine to bite a corpse's arm at the morgue.
  • Biting Sisters — Justine confronts Alexia, and the sisters attack each other before students intervene.
• Death And Inheritance — Adrien's death leads to Alexia's imprisonment and a final revelation about the family's condition.
  • Adrien's Body — Justine finds Adrien dead beside a bloody Alexia in the dormitory.
  • Father's Scars — Father reveals his wounds and connects the sisters' hunger to his history with Mother.

Directed by

Julia Ducournau

Key Cast

• Garance Marillier — Justine
• Ella Rumpf — Alexia
• Rabah Nait Oufella — Adrien
• Laurent Lucas — Father
• Joana Preiss — Mother