Bones and All (2022)

In 1988, teenager Maren Yearly lives in Virginia, where a classmate invites her to a sleepover. Although she knows her father won’t allow her to go, she sneaks out. During the sleepover, she compulsively bites her classmate's finger, partially severing it. Maren and her father, Frank, quickly relocate to Maryland. Shortly after Maren's 18th birthday, Frank abandons her, leaving behind cash, her birth certificate, and a cassette tape.

In the tape, Frank recounts Maren’s first cannibalistic episode, during which she killed her babysitter as a young child. Similar incidents continued over the years, and although Frank helped her evade the consequences, he became increasingly distressed by Maren's lack of remorse. He ends the recording by expressing hope that she will overcome her urges. Maren decides to travel to Minnesota, the birthplace of her mother, Janelle. She has no memories of her mother.

She takes a bus to Columbus, Ohio, where she meets Sully, an eccentric fellow "eater" who tracked her by smell. She accompanies Sully to a house where an elderly woman is dying. The following morning, Maren awakens to find Sully eating the woman's corpse and joins him. She flees shortly afterward. While stealing supplies from a convenience store in Indiana, Maren meets Lee, whom she later discovers has eaten a man who harassed a customer inside the store.

After stealing his victim's truck, Lee offers Maren a ride. As they embark on a cross-country road trip, Maren and Lee develop a romantic relationship. During a brief stay in Lee's hometown in Kentucky, Maren notices his reluctance to discuss his father’s absence or explain why he avoids the town. His younger sister, Kayla, who is unaware of his true nature, scolds him for repeatedly leaving.

Maren and Lee encounter two other apparent eaters, Jake and Brad. Maren is disturbed to learn that Brad does not share their cravings, but chooses to participate in cannibalism anyway. Jake also describes the experience of consuming a body “bones and all”. Lee and Maren leave while the two men are asleep, prompting Jake to wake up and pursue them. After Maren expresses hunger during a stop at a local carnival, Lee seduces, then attacks a booth worker and kills him. Once she and Lee have feasted on the body, Maren is guilt-ridden to discover that the man was married and had children.

Using a phone book, Maren finds the home of her grandmother, Barbara, who had no prior knowledge of her existence. Barbara reveals that she and her husband adopted Janelle at birth after she was abandoned behind a police station, and that Janelle has since voluntarily committed herself to a psychiatric hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Maren meets Janelle, who has eaten her own hands. She reads a letter Janelle wrote to her, which concludes with the belief that Maren would be better off dead. Janelle attacks her, but a nurse restrains her. Maren confronts Lee about his decisions, then runs away while he is asleep in the car at a gas station. She is eventually approached by Sully, who has been following her. She reprimands him, causing him to storm off in anger. Once Lee realizes Maren is gone, he decides to return home.

After a while, Maren returns to Kentucky. While there, she runs into Kayla, who tells her that on the night their alcoholic and abusive father disappeared, he beat his two children and disappeared while Kayla ran to find the police. Initially considered the prime suspect, Lee was cleared of involvement when the blood on him was proven to be his own.

After Maren reunites with Lee, they rekindle their relationship and travel west. Lee reveals to Maren that his father also ate people, bit his son during their fight, and that Lee eventually fed on him. Maren declares her love for Lee, and the two decide to attempt to live a normal life together.

Sometime later, the couple is living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Maren works at a college bookstore. She returns home one day to find Sully has broken into their apartment, and he forces himself on to her and taunts her with a knife. After Lee returns, the pair manage to kill Sully, but Lee is fatally wounded in the struggle. While searching Sully's purse, Maren finds strands of Kayla's hair and realizes she was Sully's last victim. Lee expresses his wish for Maren to eat him, "bones and all”, which she reluctantly does.