Under the moonlight, soft waves deposit heaps of garbage from the ocean onto a beach alongside long strands of seaweed. The washed-up relics combine themselves to form a thing in the shape of a man that heads for the nearby town. It lurks in the shadows, frightening an old man who runs at the sight of it. The thing steals the old man's harmonica and begins to play a sea-song on the instrument. All the people in the town follow its music, ensorcelled. It leads them back into the ocean from where it came, and the townspeople drown amongst the waves, their bodies washing up on the beach like the trash the thing was created from. At last the waves pull it apart and the song ceases, leaving the town deserted of everyone but infants and the deaf. Many of the remaining inhabitants starve to death, while others flee, and the only life in the town becomes the flicker of televisions in the homes of its drowned inhabitants.