The film opens with a woman, Margaret White, alone in her house. She gives birth to a baby girl, who she names Carrie. Years later, Carrie is a shy, unassertive and friendless girl nearing her high school graduation. Chris seduces the leader of a gang of bullies, Billy Nolan, and convinces him to aid her in getting revenge on Carrie by publicly humiliating her. Billy and his gang head out to a farm and kill two pig, draining their blood into two buckets. They then break into the school and hide the buckets above the school's stage.