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Fast forward to 1978 in Oakland, California, where we meet Ben, a pet shop owner, along with his wife Jules and their young daughter Rhea. Their mundane life takes a sudden turn when an old lawyer, Amos Tilbury, arrives with shocking news about a beachfront property owned by Ben’s late mother in Hobbits Bay, Oregon. As it turns out, Ben is the son of the man who mysteriously vanished in the opening scene. The lawyer reveals that Ben's father and sister did not perish in a car accident as he had believed, but rather disappeared from their beach house. Despite this revelation, they had already passed before Ben’s birth, leaving him with more questions than answers.