A tradition that every time someone in the family marries, the new members will have an initiation. They play a game chosen by cards.
On the wedding night, Grace is invited to join the Le Domas family tradition, an initiation custom in which the family plays a game together. Participating in the tradition with Grace are Alex, his alcoholic brother Daniel, their father Tony, their mother Becky, Daniel's snobbish wife Charity, Alex's drug-addicted sister Emilie, Emilie's whiny husband Fitch Bradley, and the somber Helene, who is Tony's older sister. It is explained that Tony's great grandfather Victor agreed to a deal with a man named Mr Le Bail. Le Bail would help create the Le Domas fortune in exchange for the Le Domas following this tradition. Grace must draw a card from Le Bail's ornate wooden box and play the game written on the card. She draws "hide and seek". Grace leaves to hide in the estate while the Le Domas family, apart from Alex, arm themselves with antique weapons to hunt her down.
Alex finds Grace before his family and witness as Emilie accidentally kills one of the maids believing it to be Grace. Alex explains that the hide and seek card is the only game in the box which requires the family to kill the recipient. He did not tell her about it because he thought it was unlikely she would draw it. If the family fails to kill Grace by dawn, they believe that the entire family will die, per Victor's agreement with Le Bail. Alex directs Grace on how to escape the house while he leaves to disable the security system, securing the doors and windows. Grace is discovered by the butler, Stevens. She injures him and escapes to the study where she is discovered by Daniel. Daniel is unhappy with the family tradition and allows Grace to escape. Meanwhile, Alex is captured and restrained by the family.
Grace escapes the house but is pursued into a barn by Emilie's young son Georgie. He shoots her in the hand. Grace knocks Georgie out. She is then stunned by a goat and knocked into a pit filled with the decaying corpses of the previous sacrifices. She climbs out and makes her way out of the property and into the woods. Stevens pursues her in a car and manages to capture her until Grace chokes him unconscious. Grace escapes in the car which is quickly reported stolen and remotely disabled. Stevens catches up to Grace and tranquilizes her.
While being driven back to the property, Grace awakens and attacks Stevens, causing him to crash the car. She is again found by Daniel. He laments that he is unwilling to participate in the ritual, but that if he does not, he is risking the lives of his family. Daniel knocks Grace out and returns her to the house with Tony. Grace is restrained to a table and surrounded by the family who prepares to sacrifice her. They drink from a ceremonial cup and then start to vomit blood. Daniel releases Grace, revealing he non-lethally poisoned its contents. Charity, believing Daniel does not care if she dies, shoots him in the neck causing him to bleed to death.
Grace knocks out Charity and Tony, inadvertently starting a fire with a broken lantern, and beats Becky to death with Le Bail's box. Alex escapes his restraints and both finds Daniel's body and Grace standing over Becky's corpse. Realizing he has lost Daniel, and that Grace is now wary of him, Alex captures Grace and alerts the others to her presence, accepting his role in the family. The group hails Satan as they restrain Grace on a table. Alex prepares to kill Grace as dawn rapidly approaches. Grace digs her nails into Helene's hand, allowing her to move out of the way and be stabbed in the shoulder. Grace uses the knife to keep the family at bay momentarily as dawn breaks. Nothing happens and the family initially believes that their tradition was a lie. Helene suddenly explodes sending gore and viscera over the others. One by one, the remaining family members explode. Flames erupt from the fire, granting Grace a brief vision of Mr Le Bail nodding in approval.
Grace leaves the house and sits on the steps as the police arrive, responding to reports of the stolen car. Drenched in blood, Grace smokes a cigarette as the Le Domas mansion burns behind her. A policeman inquires what happened; Grace replies "in-laws".
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