Owen (Smit-McPhee) es un niño solitario, brutalmente intimidado en la escuela, cuya vida cambia cuando la niña Abby (Moretz) se muda al departamento de a lado. Pronto, ambos establecen un profundo vinculo de amistad, pero Owen se dará cuenta de que Abby, no es lo que aparenta ser.

After the success of Let the Right One In a Hollywood remake was inevitable, but director Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) put skepticism to rest with a remake that was terrific in its own right, transplanting the story to the American southwest and giving it a ghostly glow.