aged to make it this far in life without so much as a sliver of salami passing her lips , but her first taste of meat is a life-changing moment . That night , Justine discovers her body has broken out in a rash , and she ’ s unable to sleep ; you might say she ’ s suffering from a severe case of the meat sweats . She ’ s addicted to flesh now , and like any junkie , she can only control her habit by feeding it . Attempting to maintain the facade of vegetarianism - lest her older sister , Alexia ( Ella Rumpf ), a fellow student , inform their parents of her lapse - Justine finds herself sneaking off in the middle of the night to feast on shwarma at roadside gas stations , and lifting burgers from the school canteen . As with those old anti-drug movies in which a puff of a joint leads to heroin addiction , prostitution and murder , Justine ’ s hunger for meat leads to stronger stuff . Following an incident in which a finger is severed and