James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) is a newly wealthy home security developer, capitalizing on the deployment of Purge survival systems. At his heavily fortified house, Mary Sandin (Lena Headey) struggles with their two children Zoey (Adelaide Kane) and Charlie (Max Burkholder); Zoey is dating an older boy named Henry (Tony Oller) and Charlie questions the need for the Purge. When James arrives home, the family discusses why the Purge is an important part of society.
After dinner, Charlie fixes a remote controlled device he uses to film events around the house. The family gathers in the lounge where James initiates the lockdown, shielding all the windows and doors, and is able to witness the events of the Purge via television screens. An official automated Government announcement is broadcast, and sirens are sounded outside, announcing the start of The Purge. The broadcast explains that all emergency services will be suspended during the 12 hour period. Zoey asks to be excused to her bedroom, where she finds Henry, who had snuck into the house before the lockdown. Henry explains to Zoey he wants to convince James to bless their relationship and figured that he could not be thrown out of the house during the Purge.
James and his family watch the events of the Purge unfold via video monitors in the lounge. After a while, Charlie is left alone in the lounge and notices a bloodied and beaten stranger (Edwin Hodge) pleading for help into the security cameras outside the house. Charlie deactivates the security system and lets him in. James intercepts the stranger and holds him at gunpoint at which time Henry reveals his presence within the house to James. Henry then attempts to shoot James, attempting to eliminate the obstacle preventing his relationship with Zoey. James fatally shoots Henry and in the confusion the stranger escapes to hide within the house. Zoey runs off with the fatally wounded Henry only to see him die of the wounds. James takes Mary and Charlie back to the safety of the lounge and then goes off in search of his daughter and the stranger.
Minutes later, a group of masked "purgers" arrive up the street, trace the stranger to the Sandin's home and address an ultimatum to the family through the surveillance system: hand the stranger over, their target, within the hour or they will break into the house and murder everyone inside. Using his remote controlled device, Charlie finds the stranger and leads him to a secret hiding place, where he won't be found by his parents. Zoey inadvertently stumbles onto the hiding place and is held at gunpoint by the stranger, but is freed after a brief struggle. James pounds a vase on the strangers head, while the stranger hits Zoey upon the table. James and Mary tie up the stranger, who is shown wearing dog tags, and are prepared to give him to the attackers, but have a change of heart when realizing that they are becoming essentially no different than the Purge murderers.
The hunters successfully break into the household and the Sandins are forced into a siege to defend the house, culminating in them killing many of the intruders. The leader of the group (Rhys Wakefield) fatally stabs James with a Bowie knife but, in turn, is shot and killed by Zoey, as the neighbors finish off the remaining intruders. However, the neighbors reveal they are there to kill the Sandins; in the theme of the Purge, since the opportunity presented itself, they decided it was their patriotic duty to kill the Sandins in order to vent their hatred for the family's new found wealth.
Just as the neighbors are about to kill the family, the bloodied stranger comes to the Sandins' aid, killing one of them. Mary is given the choice to have the other four killed, however decides to not let the Purge continue and decides to spare her neighbors, as too many people have died during the night. Grace makes one final attempt to kill Mary, but Mary deflects the attack and smashes her in the face with the end of her gun. With Grace heavily bleeding out of a broken nose, the surviving neighbors and the homeless stranger leave the house and walk away as sirens signal the end of the 12-hour Purge period. The Sandin family watch the emergency services arrive outside of their home.
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