Eva's only identity is now that of someone who gave birth to horror. And perhaps it is not that she created Kevin, but that Kevin created her. She is gaunt, hollow-eyed, stunned: her eyes are almost blind, as if she can see only memories. Swinton portrays Eva as a ghost, haunting her past and haunted by it. So Eva takes stock of her life and tries to find out if there was one key, terrible misjudgment or failing of hers as a mother, which set her son off on the road to murder. She is simultaneously at the centre of this event and at its margins.
She must spend the rest of her life trying, vainly, to make up for a crime for which she is not responsible and which she does not understand. Kevin's grotesque crime means her car and porch are always vandalised and she cannot leave the house without being screamed at or assaulted.
Her success as a travel writer originally meant they could afford a handsome family home, but we join the story as Eva, her life in ruins, is living on her own in a scuzzy bungalow, a pill-popping drinker. They have two: obnoxious smartmouth Kevin (Ezra Miller) and sweet younger sister Celia (Ashley Gerasimovich). Tilda Swinton plays Eva, a former free spirit and city-dweller who has found herself having to move to the suburbs because of her husband Franklin (John C Reilly) and his breezy insistence that the city is no place to bring up children.
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