12-year-old gymnast Tinja is desperate to please her demanding mother. Her mother runs a popular blog where she obsessively shows the world how perfect her family is. When Tinja discovers a strange egg, she takes it home to keep it warm. But when the egg hatches, a shocking discovery follows.

A time of both emotional and physical metamorphoses, the thorny passage of early adolescence takes on an avian dimension in Hanna Bergholm’s unnerving debut. A modern-day fairy tale mixed with body horror gore, Hatching charges at the tyranny of parental expectations with sharp claws.