Unlike many movies about children, The Innocents' juvenile characters are just as complex as adults. The film challenges the idea that children are - as the title suggests - innocent and fundamentally good. On its surface, The Innocents appears to be a simple story of good versus evil: Anna/Aisha good, Ben bad. Anna ultimately triumphs with Ida's help, killing Ben and putting an end to his violent rampage. There, she finds Anna and Ben engaged in a mental battle.
While left home alone to babysit Anna, who has reverted to her nonspeaking ways after Aisha's death, Ida -seemingly displaying some supernatural powers of her own - breaks out of her cast and chases Anna after she flees the apartment to confront Ben.
After a botched attempt to kill Ben by pushing him from an overpass into a busy highway, Ida returns from the hospital with a broken leg.
With Aisha dead, it doesn't take long for Ida to realize that Ben means to kill her and her sister too.
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