The abuela tells the son that she loves him, after which smelly white fumes erupt from her mouth: the curse. The son then takes a step outside to escape it. His mother soon follows, telling him not to make a scene and just get along with his abuela. He then sees a neighbor across the street and says he’ll be back after a few minutes. He goes to the beach.

The son remembers the curse of his family. No one in his family can lie or else it’ll slowly kill them, nor can they fall in love. Growing up, the son has tried to ask more questions about the curse, but he only gets hushed up. The abuela tells him of a story where a young woman falls in love with a goddess; however, the young woman gets pulled away by her family and is forced to tell lies to the goddess; after which every member of the young woman’s family henceforth is doomed to suffer the curse. One day, at the beach, the abuela teaches the son about how she used to be able to talk to the ocean but can no longer do so, nor can she see the lies.

Now, back at the beach, the son tries to listen to the ocean. His father then comes up and tells him to come back. They talk about how difficult their family is, to which the father says that the curse doesn’t stand in the way of how the son, the father, and the mother love each other. After all, the mother has since left the family and tried to put the curse behind her.

Back at the house, the son overhears her tia badmouthing him and his mother. Later, at the dinner table, the same tia acts kindly toward her. However, when she asks for the son to hand over a pitcher of water, she misgenders and misnames him, which causes the mother to correct her. They then get into an argument, which makes the mother get up and leave. Together, the son, the mother, and the father head over to their old house.

When the parents ask the son if he’s okay, he lies and says he is. He has learned to lie by hiding lies in bigger truths. He gets away with saying that he’s okay because he has since expected such situations to happen. Both his parents calm down, and he goes back to the beach. There, he listens to the ocean, and it clearly calls him.

After getting engulfed by the ocean, the son wakes up inside water and meets a being who looks both human and not. The being acknowledges him by his name and welcomes him home. The being reveals itself as the reason for the family’s curse. Right away, the son has questions. He asks why the family was cursed despite the being’s love for it. The being laments how she loved the young woman’s family dearly and yet was pushed away and lied to despite it. Not wanting the young woman nor her family to lie ever again, the being put the curse on them.

The being bemoans how the curse has only been divisive for the family rather than helping them toward truth. Before it goes, the being says that it’s proud of the son and who he is. The son then wakes up on the beach where he sees his abuela. They sit down and talk. The abuela admits that they never stopped hearing the ocean but instead chose to stop listening to it, just like the son’s mother. The abuela admits to resenting the son because the son chose to listen to the ocean rather than shying away from it, but now the abuela has been brought back in order to make things right. The abuela apologizes and wishes to start over again with the son. Together, at the ocean, they hug.