The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Francisca and her parents live on a farm where they raise animals. A trained surgeon, Francisca's mother teaches her how to remove eyeballs from farm animals, as well as the legend of St. Francis of Assisi. One day, Charlie, a door-to-door salesman, asks to use the bathroom. Against her better judgment, Francisca's mother lets him into the house. Charlie draws a gun and takes Francisca's mother into the bathroom. When her father comes home, he finds Charlie bludgeoning his wife's body in the tub. He knocks Charlie out and chains him up in the barn. Francisca and her father bury her mother in the backyard. Francisca visits Charlie and he explains the thrill of killing others. When he asks Francisca if she plans to kill him, she reacts with confusion, proclaiming that Charlie is her only friend and that she will take care of him. She then removes Charlie's eyes and vocal cords, bags them, and puts them in the refrigerator.

Years later, Francisca's father dies, and the now adult Francisca preserves his body. At a bar, Francisca meets a young woman named Kimiko, whom she takes home. Kimiko asks about Francisca's mother; when Francisca explains that her mother was murdered, Kimiko offers condolences, and Francisca kisses her. Francisca then jokes that she killed her father. A frightened Kimiko tries to leave, but Francisca murders her before dismembering her and placing her bagged organs in the refrigerator. Afterward, she bathes Charlie, still chained up in the barn, and brings him inside to sleep in her bed with her. Charlie attempts to escape, but she catches him and repeatedly stabs him. She tells him that he was right; killing someone "feels amazing". She places his organs into bags and keeps them in her refrigerator, just as she had done to Kimiko.

Now distraught at being completely alone, Francisca wanders the woods until she reaches a highway and catches a ride with a woman named Lucy and her infant son Antonio back home. Francisca becomes enamored of Antonio, and upon reaching her house, asks Lucy if she can hold him. When Lucy agrees, she thanks Lucy for the "gift" and rushes out of the car with Antonio. Lucy frantically pursues her, but Francisca stabs her, removes her eyes and vocal cords, and keeps her chained up in the barn like she had done to Charlie, subsequently spending the next few years raising Antonio as her own son.

When Antonio reaches late childhood, he becomes curious about the barn, which Francisca has forbidden him to enter. He enters the barn as Francisca is asleep one night and is terrified at the sight of a blinded, chained Lucy, groaning unintelligibly and reaching for him. Antonio asks Francisca about the woman in the barn, but she claims to not know what he is referring to. Lucy later escapes the barn and blindly makes her way to a road where a trucker finds her. After discovering Lucy missing, Francisca digs up her mother's remains and cradles the corpse as she speaks to it, expressing how much she misses her. As she sees police approaching her house, she rushes inside to wake Antonio and urges him to leave, telling him how much she loves him and making him promise that whatever he learns about her that night won't change that. Armed with a knife, she hides in the bathroom with him and begs the police not to take her baby, and a gun is fired.