[3] The film opens with a man in a public restroom who overhears slurping noises coming from the far stall.

Milo then leaves for his home, public housing in Brooklyn, New York where he lives with his older brother, Lewis.

He habitually watches movies about vampires and extreme graphic violence and writes in a visual journal.

The journal includes an ongoing list of rules that he believes vampires must follow, like the time of day appropriate to hunt.

Sophie admits to having contemplated suicide, and in response Milo cryptically tells her that he could not do so because it is "against the rules", alluding to the contents of his visual journal.

They talk about their families, revealing both parents of both of them are dead, specifically that Sophie's grandfather beats her and Milo's mother killed herself when he was younger.

Before the events of the film, his mother killed herself and Lewis walked in on Milo drinking the blood from her freshly slit wrists.

In the mean time, Milo stalks a man to his home, exsanguinating him and his young daughter before stealing some fine china.

The next day, Milo gives Andre, the leader of the gang, his collection of goods stolen from his victims to regain his trust.

At night, sitting beneath the docks at the beach, he imagines killing her and sucking the blood out of her neck.

Sensing that something is upsetting Milo, Lewis tells him that whatever he's feeling guilty about pales in comparison to all of the horrible things other people are doing to each other.

The website's critical consensus reads, "The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.