Alpha, a rebellious 13-year-old, lives with her single mum.
When Alpha returns from a house party, drunk, her mother discovers a new, amateur tattoo on her daughter’s arm.
Worried she might have been infected by a strange new bloodborne disease, their world suddenly collapses, as fear invades their family unit, triggering a chain reaction which unleashes repressed trauma, memory and dread.
The new film from acclaimed director Julia Ducournau (Titane, Raw), Alpha employs elements of body horror to tell a different kind of horror story, one to befall a family with a traumatic past.
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