Olga calls Jan's catering company to yell at the owner and learns that Jan has died by suicide.

Olga meets Matteo at Noir bar after Jan's funeral and brings him home, beginning their relationship.

Prieto learns at his district office that PROMESA protests in Puerto Rico have escalated and students have been tear-gassed.

The Selby brothers meet with Prieto and demand he block the upcoming PROMESA oversight committee hearing.

Prieto receives an anonymous package of worms at his office and immediately knows it is from his mother.

Olga and Prieto arrive together at the Blumenthal party; Dick accuses Olga of looking like the help and she ends their affair on the spot.

On the drive home from the party, Prieto reacts defensively when Olga suggests letting Jan's boyfriend Christian move into Mabel's vacant apartment.

At Mabel's wedding reception, Prieto privately confides to Olga that he may be HIV-positive after sleeping with Jan.

Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico, compounding the blackout already caused by Hurricane Irma.

Prieto receives a positive HIV test result at Olga's gynecologist's office.

Olga delivers an unplanned live rant on Good Morning, Later about US government neglect and corporate exploitation of Puerto Rico, ending her career.

Dick visits the Selby compound in Puerto Rico, where the brothers scheme to delay power restoration and force Puerto Ricans off the island to acquire land cheaply.

Olga visits Dick's apartment to propose a solar panel deal for her mother; when she refuses to sleep with him, Dick rapes her.

Prieto holds a press conference publicly announcing that he is both gay and HIV-positive.

Olga goes to Matteo's house and confesses everything about her life; he accepts her fully and reveals his substantial property wealth.

Olga Acevedo is a successful Puerto Rican wedding planner in Brooklyn whose carefully constructed life begins to unravel when her favorite catering captain dies by suicide and she unexpectedly falls for a man named Matteo. Meanwhile, her brother Prieto, a congressman, is being blackmailed by the powerful Selby brothers who are exploiting their control of Puerto Rico through corrupt PROMESA legislation. When Hurricane Maria devastates the island and Prieto tests positive for HIV, both siblings are forced into reckonings they can no longer avoid. Olga's rant about US government neglect on live television ends her career, while her attempt to help her estranged mother acquire solar panels leads to a violent assault by her former lover Dick. The siblings emerge from these crises by rejecting the secrets and manipulation that have defined their lives, with Prieto publicly coming out and Olga finally allowing Matteo to fully know her.

The headline events driving Olga and Prieto's story from beginning to end.

Olga attends Jan's wake, gives his boyfriend Christian money for rent, and cuts off Jan's self-pitying boss Carol mid-rant.

Prieto reluctantly agrees to attend dinner at the Selby family home after his chief of staff relays the invitation.

Dick invites Olga to the exclusive Blumenthal party in the Hamptons, and Olga schemes to attend without appearing to be his date.

Olga and Matteo visit Sylvia's Social Club on their second date and open up about their experiences of feeling like outsiders at New England schools.

Olga secretly visits the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and sits in her late grandmother's pew, praying to know what it is to feel loved.

The FBI traces Prieto's worm package to Karen Price, a known associate of his mother, but Prieto keeps this information to himself.

Reggie King publicly challenges Prieto at a New York fundraiser, demanding he explain why he canceled the PROMESA oversight hearing.

Matteo allows Olga into his hoarded home for the first time in eight years and they spend the night listening to records together.

Reggie intercepts Olga on the street and reveals that her mother Blanca leads the secretive Pañuelos Negros and is requesting her help.

Mabel confronts Olga at the wedding reception about the napkins scheme; the cousins agree to start their relationship fresh.

Prieto travels to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and has AK-47s pointed at him by armed Pañuelos Negros members distributing water.

Prieto returns from his first trip to Puerto Rico and finds Olga waiting; she confirms their mother is behind the Pañuelos Negros.

Prieto comes out as gay to his daughter Lourdes and tells her he is HIV-positive; she is completely unfazed.

Tía Lola and Mabel use the spare key to enter Olga's apartment and discover a pile of Blanca's letters on the table.

In a flash forward, Blanca's revolution unfolds with bombings across Puerto Rico; Olga drops a burner phone in the gutter rather than report her mother to the FBI.

Alongside the main plot, a series of quieter but equally important events shape the lives of Olga and Prieto as they navigate their fractured family and shifting worlds. Olga's budding romance with Matteo deepens through vulnerable conversations at Sylvia's Social Club, while her complicated entanglements with Dick and the Hamptons social scene expose the costs of chasing elite access. Prieto's growing awareness of his mother's reach—from the FBI tracing the worm package to Reggie's public challenge at a fundraiser—keeps him on edge even as he tries to do good in Puerto Rico. The hurricane and its aftermath crack open the family's culture of silence, setting in motion a chain of disclosures from Tía Lola, Mabel, and Prieto himself. By the end, the extended family has replaced Blanca's poisonous secrecy with genuine acceptance, even as Blanca's long-planned revolution explodes in Puerto Rico.

The significant supporting moments that fill out the full arc of the Acevedos' story.

Prieto greets constituents at the 36th Street subway stop and is publicly chastised by an elderly woman for failing to deliver real results.

Prieto recalls the Selby dinner where the brothers showed him compromising photos and explained that he was now their political property.

Olga's TV pilot Spice It Up is rejected by white test audiences and buried in a pre-dawn time slot; Blanca sends a mocking note calling her a maid.

Olga tells Matteo she has realized that Prieto never visited their dying father not because of their mother, but because he was afraid of being identified as gay.

Prieto drives alone to Shore Road, paralyzed by the fear that he is HIV-positive like his father and will die the same way.

Tía Lola reveals to Olga that she is a lesbian and that Blanca's departure gave her the unexpected freedom to raise children while living authentically.

Olga accepts a cash-in-hand money-laundering job from the shady Igor after negotiating a deal to hand her wedding business over to Meegan.

A blindfolded Prieto is taken to the Pañuelos Negros mountain compound and given a tour of their classrooms, medical buildings, and water purification system.

Blanca calls Olga for the first time in over twenty years; Olga is moved to tears when her mother praises her Good Morning, Later rant.

Prieto meets Blanca in person; she reveals she never wanted children and tries to embrace him before sending him away; he recoils from her touch.

Prieto sets the FBI on Reggie to draw him out, then meets with him and demands he stay away from Olga in exchange for calling off the agents.

Olga shuts herself inside her apartment after the rape; she waits for her mother to call but Blanca never does.

Tía Lola reads Blanca's letters aloud to Olga, Mabel, and Prieto; the family collectively names them as years of deliberate emotional abuse.

Olga leaks the story of the Selbys bribing multiple congressmen to the press before Prieto's public announcement.

Matteo suggests therapy for both of them—his hoarding and her self-sabotage—and the two fully commit to building a life together.

Beneath the surface of Olga and Prieto's public lives lies a series of private reckonings that ultimately determine who they become. Prieto's secret homosexuality, first glimpsed in the story of the Selbys' blackmail, warps every political decision he makes and keeps him isolated with a growing fear of HIV. For Olga, the turning points arrive more violently: the discovery that her career was built on other people's condescension, her mother's cold transactional phone call after twenty years of silence, and the horror of Dick's assault followed by Blanca's complete absence. The family's reckoning arrives when Tía Lola reads Blanca's manipulative letters aloud and the siblings finally see their mother clearly. What emerges from this exorcism is not revolutionary politics but something more durable: honest relationships, mutual acceptance, and the willingness to ask for help.

The key discoveries, emotional breaks, and decisions that reshape both siblings' lives.