A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ending explained

What happens

After she kills a man who threatened him, Arash sees what she is. He chooses her anyway. The two leave Bad City in his car, with the cat between them, heading toward a future the film doesn't show.

The last image

The car holds the vampire, Arash and the cat, with the road ahead and no destination in sight.

Two readings

1 · A real escapeTwo lonely people finally find each other and get out of a dying town.

2 · A fragile hopeArash knows what she is, yet nothing says her violence will stay away from him.

What it says

The film is about whether two isolated people can reach each other, so it ends on the choice, not the consequences. Arash isn't scared of her, and the ending lets that stand as an act of trust.