When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter Annie - along with her husband and their two children - begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Unleashing a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown and transforming a family tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting, Hereditary pushes the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.