What We Become

What We Become is a 2015 Danish horror and zombie movie directed by Bo Mikkelson. It premiered on March 31, 2016. A family unravels during a bloody, berserk summer, when a horrifying plague transforms a small town into the flesh-eating walking dead. Plot A family of four, Dino, his wife Pernille and their children, the young Maj and teenager Gustav are living in idyllic Sorgenfri, Denmark during the summer. Pernille dotes on Maj, who in turn dotes on her pet rabbit, Ninos. Another teen, Sonja, moves in with her mother across the street, much to Gustav's interest. At a picnic one of the neighbours, Casper, tries to persuade Dino to get a gun so they can go hunting together, but Dino refuses. Meanwhile, some picnickers, specifically a little boy, is seen throwing up, possibly teasing at the fact that he might be infected. An elderly neighbour comes running to the party and says her husband has died, but upon investigation his body has gone missing. Over the course of several days, the situation escalates as a deadly virus that reanimates its hosts into hostile killing machines sweeps the neighbourhood, but Dino lies to the children assuring them that everything is alright. Sorgenfri is then quarantined by the military which orders all residents to self-isolate. The military keeps the families supplied but each house is kept strictly incommunicado, hermetically sealed with plastic sheets, and the power frequently fails. During the night some of the neighbours are dragged from their homes and placed in the back of trucks and transported to a "safe space", as the military tells them. Gustav, having snuck out, witnesses that the said "safe space" is actually filled with infected that get shot while having gone out to spy on Sonja and, in a burst of fervor, frees said infected from the big trucks that they are transported in. The military is quickly overrun and retreats, abandoning everyone to their fate. Sonja and her infected mother are taken in at Gustav's insistence against Pernille's protests.