When Black Birds Fly (2016)

Plotzle Expert · E97 · June 6, 2026 · Animation / Horror

Six plot descriptions for When Black Birds Fly (2016). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A guilt-ridden animator creates a children's series featuring ravens as heroes, but the drawn characters begin appearing in his apartment and demanding he atone for abandoning his daughter.
2. Black ink spreads across a monastery's illuminated manuscripts as a novice monk illustrates a bestiary, and the corrupted pages cause the other monks to lose their ability to speak or pray.
3. A widower teaches his grandson to draw corvids as therapy, but the boy's sketches become increasingly violent and the grandfather realizes the child witnessed the grandmother's actual suicide.
4. In a coastal orphanage, a mute girl befriends a flock of crows that deliver small bones to her window, and she arranges them into sculptures that predict staff members' deaths.
5. A puppet theater troupe in rural Iceland performs folklore about bird omens, but their lead puppeteer begins sleepwalking and carving disturbing prophecies into the wooden sets each night.
6. A charismatic leader demands obedience from citizens of a town called Heaven, which remains peaceful until two children break his greatest rule by venturing beyond the town's walls.