Dom and Cole, a successful couple from Los Angeles, begin the film celebrating a decade together and taking a trip to Italy to mark their tenth anniversary. While they are abroad, Dom's phone rings: Candace, a woman they have been considering as a surrogate or birth mother, calls to tell them she is pregnant and later that her labour may be starting. The couple arrive in the Umbrian countryside to meet Daniele, an old acquaintance of Dom's late father, who has organized a private anniversary dinner for them at a rustic farm restaurant in Orvieto. Daniele explains that the venue has been shut for months but that the owner agreed to reopen for this single evening. He hands them directions that are imprecise and unusually vague, and Dom and Cole drive away into increasingly isolated fields and backroads.

A sudden storm begins while they are navigating narrow lanes. Sheets of rain turn the dirt track into a slick rut; the rental car sinks and becomes stuck in the mud. As the two men step out to assess the situation, a gaunt, surly farmer appears on the crest of a bank carrying a shotgun. The farmer's posture and the firearm frighten Dom and Cole, who tense immediately; the man's expression reads suspicion rather than menace. After a terse exchange in which the farmer learns they are guests headed to Luciana's restaurant, he drops the barrel, moves closer, and pushes the car free of the mud. He refuses payment and instead offers them a ride the last stretch. The farmer drives them the remaining distance and stops at the small farmhouse where an elderly woman, Zia Luciana, stands waiting with a lantern.

Luciana greets them at the doorstep with an affectionate, if muddled, warmth; she has poor eyesight and hearing, and she ambles through domestic tasks while interacting with the guests. She fusses over the table setting and plugs Dom's phone into a charger. During dinner, as she pours wine, Luciana speaks about her desire to re-open the restaurant; she says her son Giovanni died some time ago and that reopening the kitchen is part of trying to honor him. Daniele had told her about Dom and Cole and how the dinner would mark their anniversary, so she prepared a meal despite having kept the place closed. The atmosphere is convivial and intimate. Cole, who is a devoted vegetarian, tries a slice of pizza topped with a sausage he is told is local specialty; within minutes he feels unwell and excuses himself to the small bathroom at the back of the building.

While Cole moves through a dim corridor toward the bathroom he notices another room with the door ajar and disturbed sheets. Inside a man on a hospital bed is connected to a respirator; this is Gianni, Luciana's husband, who has been in a coma and remains hooked to life support. Cole withdraws in shock and returns toward the dining area to find Dom. At that moment the power cuts out abruptly, plunging the farmhouse into darkness. Luciana, startled by the blackout, climbs onto a stool and fumbles toward the basement door, insisting she will restart the generator herself. In the panic that follows, Cole steps through the dark searching for Dom and collides with Luciana. He pushes her inadvertently; she loses her balance, tumbles backwards down a steep wooden flight of basement stairs, and lands with a fatal impact. Cole and Dom rush to her side, lift her body, and attempt to revive her, but Luciana shows no signs of life. Panicked by the possibility of being implicated in her death, they drag her limp body back upstairs and tuck it beneath the main table where earlier they had eaten, covering it with a cloth and arranging plates and cutlery to conceal her.

As Dom and Cole are taking stock of the situation, Massimo, Luciana's other son, arrives. He shows them the muddy rental car he found and says he has already gotten it unstuck; he introduces them to Francesca, his fiancée. The mood seems to stabilize briefly; Francesca engages Cole in conversation and steps outside for a short walk. When she returns to the dining room she appears unsettled by the suddenly somber atmosphere and the way the dishes are stacked. After a pause, Massimo approaches the table with a bottle of wine and a large kitchen knife, his face contorted. He moves toward Dom with the knife in his hand, and in a strained, ambiguous voice he tells Dom the words that are meant to be joyful: "You're going to be dads." Under the rain of language and noise and with the memory of the blackout and Luciana's collapse still fresh, Dom and Cole misinterpret Massimo's tone and intent; they take his thrusting posture as an attack. Acting reflexively and in fear, the couple defend themselves with the set of ornate knives they had received as a gift from Daniele's wife. The confrontation escalates in a single chaotic moment: Massimo lunges; Dom and Cole stab him repeatedly. Massimo collapses to the floor bleeding; he dies at the table from multiple stab wounds.

After the stabbing, Francesca returns to the room and freezes when she sees Massimo slumped across the floor, the white tablecloth now spattered with blood. She screams and bolts from the farmhouse. Cole chases after her through the mud toward an outbuilding, sprinting through rain and renovated hens' coops. During the chase Cole drops one of the knives on the ground. Francesca yells and flings herself into a small shed to evade him; she finds a narrow route along the back of the property and attempts to escape into the lane. Dom, trying to intercept her and stop her from alerting the authorities, jumps into the rental car and turns the ignition. He pulls the vehicle through the gate and aims it down the track toward the lane where Francesca is running. As he accelerates, he strikes her with the front of the car. Francesca is thrown against the metal; she falls lifeless onto the gravel. Dom climbs out, stunned, and inspects her--she is dead from the blunt-force trauma of the collision.

With Luciana unconscious in the basement and Massimo and Francesca dead on the property, Dom and Cole confront an escalating emergency: Candace has called again and her labour is active, the baby's arrival imminent. Dom holds his phone and discovers that Candace's water has broken, and he hears the message Massimo had attempted to convey incorrectly earlier. The couple realize, in a moment of crushing clarity, that Massimo had meant to bless their impending parenthood by telling them they were going to be "dads," not to threaten them with death. They are now responsible for three corpses and one house that bears the marks of multiple violent incidents and a blackout. They move quickly, with precision aggravated by panic. They discover that the wood-fired pizza oven is still burning hot from the dinner service. In a grim sequence they drag the three bodies--Luciana, Massimo, and Francesca--toward the oven and push them inside, using metal peels to heave the weight of each body into the flames. The couple tend the fire until the oven consumes the remains and reduces them to charred fragments.

Once the oven cools, Dom and Cole set about removing any forensic evidence. They clean the table and counter surfaces, launder linens, scrub blood from floors and doorknobs, and return knives and utensils to their places. They collect any items that could link them to the murders and dispose of them in the fields. They replace lightbulbs that had been smudged and wipe fingerprints off the steering wheel and door handles. In their haste to flee to the airport and reach Candace before the baby is born, they fail to account fully for every potential trace.

On the narrow country lane, as they drive away, Dom and Cole are preoccupied with their phones and the time-sensitive flight they must catch. The farmer who earlier assisted them steps from behind a hedge, perhaps to help or maybe to ask a question, and the car collides with him suddenly. The vehicle strikes the man; he goes down, and the couple, startled and now implicated in yet another death, do not stop to render aid. They continue driving, covering the last miles to the airport and catch their flight back to Los Angeles. In the following hours they are present as Candace gives birth; the couple hold the newborn son and name him Giovanni, after the deceased son Luciana had spoken of earlier.

Back in Italy, evidence begins to surface. Emergency responders attend the farmhouse after a neighbor reports strange smells and the smell of smoke; the local police investigate the barn where Luciana and the others lived. Gianni, who had remained hooked to a respirator in the back room after the blackout, succumbs in the hospital; the doctors declare his death after removing life support. When the investigators execute a formal search of Luciana's property, they discover partial human remains that had been burned in the oven and the misplaced items around the house. Among the materials recovered is a distinctive kitchen knife matching the style of those given to Dom and Cole as a gift; one of the knives bears traces that forensic teams link to the scene. Civil authorities process the evidence and catalog the charred remains, and they collect that knife as an exhibit.

The case opens an official inquiry that leads to interviews and the circulation of photographs taken at the farmhouse. Detectives follow the chain of events: witness statements about the rental car stuck in the mud, the farmer's initial assistance, the couple's arrival and Daniele's involvement in organizing the dinner. Police piece together the sequence of the blackout, Luciana's fall, the altercation with Massimo and Francesca, and the disposal of bodies in the oven. Forensic analysis ties the recovered knife to wounds inflicted on Massimo. A forensic team photographs Gianni's body and traces that may connect the couple to the house; one of Cole's knives is catalogued from the farmhouse. The timeline situates Dom and Cole as the last known non-family members to be present at Luciana's restaurant before the killings.

Despite the investigation, Dom and Cole remain in Los Angeles with newborn Giovanni. The film's final scenes show the couple at home with the baby, performing the intimate tasks of early parenthood: feeding, changing, and comforting him. They stand together in a quiet kitchen, watching Giovanni sleep, and the narrative closes on their domestic life. The Italian police continue their inquiries, having recovered the charred remains and catalogued the knife that ties back to the scene. The film ends with an image of the small family in their house in Los Angeles, the newborn son named Giovanni in their arms, as detectives in Italy assemble the evidence that links the tragic events at the farmhouse to the couple who left the scene and returned across the Atlantic.

The movie I Don't Understand You (2025) ends with Dom and Cole, a queer couple, accidentally killing several people during a chaotic series of events in Italy. They attempt to cover up the deaths by burning the bodies and then flee the country to start their new life as parents in the United States, narrowly escaping justice.

In the final sequence, the tension escalates rapidly. After Massimo, the son of the family they are staying with, is accidentally killed by Dom and Cole during a misunderstanding involving a knife, Francesca, Massimo's fiancée, witnesses the aftermath and runs away in fear. Cole chases her into a barn, but Francesca escapes out the back just as Dom arrives driving Massimo's truck. In a tragic accident, Dom hits Francesca with the vehicle, killing her instantly.

Now burdened with three bodies--Massimo, Francesca, and the mother Zia Luciana, who unexpectedly wakes up during their cleanup--Dom and Cole struggle to manage the situation. When Zia wakes, Cole knocks her unconscious to prevent her from alerting anyone. They decide to burn all the bodies in a wood-fired oven inside the house to erase evidence.

After disposing of the bodies, they change clothes and leave the house. On their way to the airport, they accidentally run over a man who had previously helped them, adding another unintended death to their tally. Meanwhile, police arrive at the scene and question Zia's husband, who blames "queers" for the killings, but the officers misunderstand and react angrily. Due to a disconnected respirator, Zia's husband dies as well.

The police find a personalized knife linked to Cole, which could trace back to them, but Dom and Cole have already purchased plane tickets to Pittsburgh to meet Candace, the woman who is about to give them a child. At airport security, Dom is stopped because he forgot his passport. He offers to take responsibility and apologizes, implying he is willing to face consequences, but the couple ultimately manages to board the plane and escape.

The film closes with Dom and Cole successfully returning to the United States, where they begin their life as parents to their son Giovanni, having evaded legal repercussions for the deaths they caused.

Fates of main characters at the end:

• Dom and Cole: Escape Italy and return to the U.S. to start their family, evading justice.
• Massimo: Accidentally killed by Dom and Cole during a knife confrontation.
• Francesca: Killed accidentally by Dom with a truck while fleeing.
• Zia Luciana: Initially thought dead, wakes up but is knocked unconscious and later burned.
• Zia's husband: Dies due to a disconnected respirator during police questioning.
• The man who helped Dom and Cole: Accidentally run over and killed by Dom and Cole on the way to the airport.

This ending highlights the chaotic consequences of panic and fear, as well as the couple's desperate desire to protect their future family at any cost.

Yes, the movie I Don't Understand You (2025) has a post-credit scene. In this sequence, it is revealed that the police have concluded that the character Daniele is responsible for the events that transpired in the film. This scene serves as a final narrative closure, confirming the authorities' perspective on the case after the main story ends.

Dom and Cole get lost on their way to a farm restaurant in Orvieto because the directions they receive are not very precise. Their rental car then gets stuck in the mud during a heavy rainstorm, which leads to them being stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills.

Zia Luciana is an old woman with vision and hearing problems who owns the farm restaurant where Dom and Cole have their anniversary dinner. She helps them set the table and charge Dom's phone. She also shares her desire to reopen the restaurant after her son Giovanni died. Later, she is accidentally pushed down the basement stairs by Cole during a power outage and dies.

Candace is a woman who is eight months pregnant and looking for the right family for her baby. She calls Dom and Cole while they are in Italy, offering them the chance to adopt her child, which is a major reason for their trip and adds emotional stakes to their vacation.

During the power outage, Luciana stands on a stool, seemingly trying to restart the power generator. In the dark, Cole accidentally pushes her down the basement stairs. They try to resuscitate her but fail, and then hide her under the table because they do not want to go to jail.

Gianni is Zia Luciana's husband who is being kept in a respirator and recovering from a coma. Cole discovers him when he detours to the toilet during the dinner at the restaurant.

The movie I Don't Understand You (2025) is not family friendly; it is rated R and contains dark comedy and horror elements that may be upsetting for children or sensitive viewers.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting aspects include:

• Dark humor and horror-comedy elements with escalating intense and sometimes disturbing situations during the couple's vacation in rural Italy.
• Scenes involving anxiety, microaggressions, and emotional tension related to the couple's struggles with adoption and relationship stress.
• Some physical mishaps and discomfort, such as getting stuck in mud and being drenched in rain, portrayed with a mix of comedy and distress.
• The film explores themes of adoption fraud and emotional vulnerability, which may be heavy for younger or sensitive audiences.
• The tone shifts between heartfelt moments and dark, unsettling sequences that may feel uncomfortable or intense.

Overall, the film's mature themes, dark comedic tone, and horror elements make it unsuitable for children and potentially distressing for sensitive viewers.