Character Relationship Map: Raw

Characters

• Justine (played by Garance Marillier) — protagonist

  Justine is a lifelong vegetarian beginning veterinary school with her older sister. After being forced to eat raw rabbit kidney during hazing, she develops an escalating craving for meat and eventuall...

• Alexia (played by Ella Rumpf) — protagonist

  Alexia is Justine's older sister and a fellow veterinary student who introduces her to the school's brutal hazing culture. She forces Justine to eat meat, stages violent tests to teach her about their...

• Adrien (played by Rabah Nait Oufella) — supporting

  Adrien is Justine's roommate and a veterinary student who says he is gay. He accompanies her while she secretly seeks meat, listens when she confesses her cravings, and becomes her sexual partner. The...

• Father (played by Laurent Lucas) — supporting

  Justine's father is one of the veterinary school's former students and the partner of her mother. After Adrien's death and Alexia's imprisonment, he comforts Justine at home, insisting that the sister...

• Mother (played by Joana Preiss) — supporting

  Justine's mother is a former student of the same veterinary school and the partner whom Justine's father met there. She appears in the old class photograph with him, while his account of their first k...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Father → Mother (Romantic Husband) — Their relationship is presented as a shared romantic and bodily history.

  The father recalls meeting the mother and explains that he understood her condition when they first kissed; he also reveals scars and missing pieces o...

• Justine → Alexia (Family Younger Sister) — They are sisters whose relationship drives the film's central conflict.

  The plot identifies Alexia as Justine's older sister, and both attend the same veterinary school.

• Mother → Alexia (Family Mother) — She belongs to Alexia's family background but is not directly active in the described events.

  Alexia is identified as one of the sisters whose parents met at the veterinary school.

• Mother → Justine (Family Mother) — She is part of Justine's family background, although she has no direct scene in the provided plot.

  The sisters' parents met at the same veterinary school, and Justine's father later discusses their family history with Justine.

• Father → Alexia (Family Father) — He remains concerned about Alexia even after she is imprisoned.

  Justine's father explicitly discusses what happened to both sisters and says that neither Justine nor Alexia is at fault.

• Father → Justine (Family Father) — He provides parental reassurance and contextualizes the family's condition.

  At home, Justine's father tells her that what happened is neither hers nor Alexia's fault and assures her that she will find a solution.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Alexia → Adrien (Conflict Suspected Killer) — Alexia becomes legally responsible for Adrien's death within the described plot.

  Justine finds Adrien dead with a stab wound in his back and sees a bloody Alexia slumped on the floor; Alexia is subsequently imprisoned for Adrien's...

• Justine → Adrien (Social Roommate) — Their living arrangement becomes the basis for trust and intimacy.

  Justine meets Adrien on her first night, and the plot identifies him as her roommate.

Story Analysis

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

Plot Progression

1. 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...
2. 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.
3. 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 encoun...
4. 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.
5. 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...