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==Plot==
On a suburban street at night, a black man walks alone and talks on the phone. A car pulls up to the curb alongside the man, who senses trouble and starts to walk away. A person wearing a helmet that conceals their face tackles the man to the ground, subdues him, and hauls him into the car, which then drives off into the night.
26-year-old Chris Washington, a black photographer, travels to [[upstate New York]] for a weekend getaway to meet the family of his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage. He has uncomfortable conversations with her parents, Dean, a neurosurgeon, and Missy, a psychiatrist. Her brother Jeremy arrives and tells embarrassing stories about his sister at dinner. Chris witnesses eerie behavior from the family's black servants, Georgina and Walter.
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Dozens of wealthy white people arrive for the Armitage's annual get-together; Chris feels uncomfortable with their remarks about him. He meets a blind art dealer, Jim Hudson, who takes interest in Chris's photography, and another black man, Logan King, whom he finds familiar. Like Walter and Georgina, Logan behaves oddly, and is married to a white woman thirty years his senior. Chris tries to photograph Logan; when the camera flash goes off, Logan becomes hysterical, rushing at Chris and frantically shouting at him to "get out".
The party guests hold a [[silent auction]]. Hudson makes the winning bid, with Chris as the "prize". Chris sends the photo of Logan to his friend, the [[Transportation Security Administration|TSA]] officer Rod Williams, who recognizes him as Andre Hayworth, a missing man from Brooklyn
Chris awakens strapped to an armchair in the basement. In a video presentation, Rose's grandfather, Roman, explains that the family transplants wealthy white people's brains into others' bodies, granting them preferred physical characteristics. The host's consciousness remains powerless in the sunken place. Hudson does not care about Chris's race, and only wants his eyesight. Meanwhile, Rod, who has been trying and failing to contact Chris and suspects a conspiracy, goes to the policy to report Chris as a missing person. The police laugh him off due to his fixation on [[sex trafficking]].
Missy attempts to hypnotize Chris again, but he blocks the hypnotic trigger by plugging his ears with cotton stuffing pulled from the armchair. He bludgeons Jeremy, kills Dean and Missy, and kills Jeremy when he attacks. Chris attempts to escape in Jeremy's Porsche but accidentally hits Georgina, who is possessed by Rose's grandmother Marianne. Compelled by guilt from his mother's death, he retrieves her. She attacks him, causing the car to crash and kill her.
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