BEAUTIFUL CREATURES introduces us to Wate and Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), two star-crossed teenagers with, naturally, deep dark secrets. Lena arrives in Ethan’s southern town of Gatlin, South Carolina, to live with her uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons) and soon captures Ethan’s attention. Lena, as it turns out, isn’t like all the other girls in town — she possesses a strange and magical power that is about to manifest itself on her upcoming 16th birthday, as part of the “Claiming” ritual that forces her to decide her fate, be it light or dark. Their teenage romance is tested further by Lena’s mysterious and powerful family.