Master Legend responds to Scarlett's final letter with an invitation and three tickets to attend Caraval on his private island.

Governor Dragna discovers Tella and Scarlett with Julian in the cellar and strikes Tella twice across the face.

Julian presses a cloth over Scarlett's face at Del Ojos Beach and kidnaps her under Tella's instruction.

On the raft to the island, Scarlett agrees to attend Caraval after Julian challenges her to discover more than safety.

Their boat fills with water, and Julian cuts off Scarlett's heavy gown so they can both swim to shore.

Scarlett and Julian enter the gates of Caraval, and Scarlett chooses to be a player rather than a spectator.

Scarlett and Julian race down the canal and barely reach La Serpiente de Cristal before the last lantern goes out.

Scarlett enters Tella's ransacked hotel room and finds a picture card of a castle hidden among the wreckage.

Fortune teller Nigel doses Scarlett with truth serum and advises her to follow the boy with a heart made of black.

Scarlett drinks magical cider from a cart boy, and her entire world shifts to black and white.

Scarlett pays for dresses with two days of her life; Julian gives up a day so each of them dies for only one.

Governor Dragna and Count d'Arcy corner Scarlett and Julian in the tunnels, and Dragna slashes Julian's face with a knife.

Scarlett holds a fire poker to the count's chest and uses the Elixir of Protection to restrain him to the bed.

Scarlett leaps through a dark hole that opens in the carousel and lands in water below, where Legend greets her.

Tella steps off the balcony and dies; Scarlett's wish revives her and exposes the whole game as Tella's elaborate plan.

Scarlett Dragna has dreamed of attending Caraval her whole life, but her abusive father's plan to marry her off forces her to suppress those dreams. When Julian kidnaps her and delivers her to the magical island, Scarlett reluctantly agrees to play the game to find her sister Tella, who Legend has supposedly taken captive. She follows a series of increasingly dangerous clues through Caraval's fantastical world while her father and her cruel fiancé hunt her down. After a violent confrontation in the tunnels, Scarlett finds the courage to turn the tables on the men who have always controlled her. The game reaches its shocking climax when Tella sacrifices herself and Scarlett's love proves strong enough to make the impossible wish that saves her sister. It is ultimately revealed that Tella orchestrated the entire game to free Scarlett from fear and set her on a new path.

The core quest to find Tella and escape Governor Dragna's grip.

Scarlett's grandmother Nana Anna tells young Scarlett and Tella the origin story of Master Legend and his lost love Annalise.

Scarlett passes a secret note through the church priest asking Tella to meet her at Del Ojos Beach that night.

A man named Algie offers Scarlett a shortcut into Caraval if she surrenders her voice for one hour; she refuses.

Julian pretends to be Scarlett's fiancé to secure both their entries into the gates of Caraval.

Julian pushes Scarlett through the hotel entrance just in time but fails to get himself inside before the doors close.

Scarlett lies to the innkeeper, calling Julian her fiancé, and persuades him to open the doors and let Julian inside.

Scarlett and Julian discover their hotel rooms are secretly connected by a hidden door, arranged personally by Master Legend.

Dante, a tattooed stranger, approaches Scarlett sitting alone in the hallway and offers to let her sleep in his room.

Scarlett dreams that Master Legend invites her to truly play the game before throwing her off a balcony.

A woman pretending to be pregnant tricks Scarlett into handing over her belongings and disappears with everything.

Scarlett holds the first clue note up to a candle flame, revealing a hidden poem and five clues to find Tella.

Julian steps close to Scarlett and introduces himself to Dante as her fiancé, cutting off Dante's romantic pursuit.

Julian returns to the hotel covered in blood and produces Scarlett's stolen scarlet stone earrings, retrieved from the thief.

Scarlett spots a black heart tattoo on Dante's arm in the tavern and realizes he is the boy she must follow.

At the afterparty, Julian confesses to Scarlett that he is Master Legend's brother and does not age while in the troupe.

From the moment Scarlett arrives on the island, she is guided and misled by a cast of characters who each play their part in a larger game she does not yet understand. Julian navigates entry alongside her with half-truths and charm, and their forced proximity in a secretly connected hotel room sets the tone for their evolving relationship. Scarlett faces a series of escalating tricks — from stolen belongings to hidden clues — that chip away at her cautious nature and force her to think like a player. Side characters like Dante, Aiko, Algie, and Nigel each present her with choices that demand she reckon honestly with her own desires and fears. By following the black heart tattoo on Dante's arm, Scarlett inches closer to the truth about the game's design. The pool ends at the afterparty, where Julian's final confession reframes his role throughout the entire experience.

The hidden mechanics, side characters, and Caraval encounters that shape Scarlett's journey.

Scarlett recalls watching her father drown sailor Felipe at Del Ojos Beach as punishment for helping the sisters try to escape.

Scarlett signs the official rules of Caraval with a drop of her own blood, fully committing herself to the game.

Scarlett buys the Elixir of Protection from a potion seller by naming Governor Dragna as the person she fears most.

Scarlett discovers a Caraval symbol hidden at the bottom of an empty fountain, which opens to reveal a secret underground staircase.

While dead for a day, Scarlett dreams of her grandparents and first hears her grandmother referred to by the name Annalise.

Governor Dragna appears in the hotel corridor, revealing he has tracked Scarlett down inside the game.

Scarlett finds Julian standing silently over Dante's dead body deep in the underground tunnels beneath Castillo Maldito.

Julian admits to Scarlett that he was initially using her but insists that his real feelings for her are genuine.

Soaking wet and sheltering from the rain outside Castillo Maldito, Scarlett and Julian share a first real kiss.

Legend stabs Julian through the chest and kills him for genuinely falling in love with a game participant.

Tella introduces Scarlett to her new fiancé, Lord Daniel DeEngl, and Scarlett immediately recognizes him as the actor playing Legend.

After Tella's death, Scarlett confronts Governor Dragna and threatens to expose his murder of Felipe, forcing him to back down.

The actor Caspar admits he was only playing Legend and hands Scarlett the letters exchanged between Tella and the real Master Legend.

Tella reveals she is alive and explains that she spent a year secretly planning the entire Caraval game to set Scarlett free.

Scarlett and Julian kiss at the afterparty; Tella privately discovers a note from a mysterious stranger demanding she repay a debt.

Scarlett begins her journey burdened by a secret she has never shared: her father murdered a sailor to keep her trapped on Trisda, and she witnessed it. This hidden trauma shapes every fear-driven choice she makes as she enters Caraval and begins uncovering secrets about Legend's past, her grandmother's true identity, and Julian's real motives. A series of pivotal revelations — Julian's connection to Rosa, the link between Nana Anna and Legend's broken heart, and Tella's long-planned scheme — reframe everything Scarlett thought she understood about the game. Each turning point demands that Scarlett act with greater courage and self-honesty than she ever has before. Tella's death and the confrontation with her father force Scarlett to finally use her voice and claim her own freedom. The pool ends with bittersweet hope: the sisters are free, but Tella's secret debt to a mysterious stranger signals that danger lies ahead.

The decisions, discoveries, and emotional turning points that transform Scarlett.