Jam bleeds on Bitter's painting after cutting her hand on razor blades embedded in the canvas.

A creature emerges from Bitter's painting, communicates telepathically with Jam, and tells her to call it Pet.

Pet tells Jam that a monster lives in the house of Jam's best friend, Redemption, and needs Jam's help to find it.

Pet wakes Bitter and Aloe, who are furious at its presence and demand Jam send it back into the painting.

Jam pretends to obey her parents but secretly tells Pet to stay, defying their wishes.

Jam visits Redemption's house for a family dinner but cannot detect anything monstrous there.

Jam reveals Pet's existence to Redemption but withholds the truth that the monster lives in his own house.

Librarian Ube gives Jam and Redemption pamphlets on child abuse, drug use, and parental neglect from the archive.

Redemption reads the child abuse pamphlets and realizes that his younger brother Moss shows signs of being abused.

Moss draws a hibiscus flower to name his abuser, identifying Uncle Hibiscus as the monster in Lucille.

Jam, Redemption, and Pet lure Uncle Hibiscus to the basement by pretending Redemption suffered a training injury.

Hibiscus grabs Jam's wrist and injures her when she intervenes, and Pet hurls Hibiscus against the wall.

Jam argues passionately that Hibiscus must be left alive so the town of Lucille can learn from his exposure.

Pet unfurls its golden feathers and reveals its true face to Hibiscus, burning both of his eyes from his skull.

Hibiscus and Glass are taken for rehabilitation, and Lucille's angels create programs to detect future monsters in the community.

Pet emerges from Bitter's painting after Jam accidentally bleeds on the canvas and reveals that a monster is hiding in the house of Jam's best friend, Redemption. Despite her parents' insistence that monsters no longer exist in Lucille, Jam defies them and secretly keeps Pet in her world to investigate. After visiting the library and reading pamphlets on child abuse, Redemption realizes his younger brother Moss has been abused, and Moss identifies his abuser by drawing a hibiscus flower. Jam, Redemption, and Pet lure Uncle Hibiscus into a basement confrontation and, despite Pet's desire to kill him, Jam convinces Pet to spare Hibiscus so the town can learn from his exposure. Pet reveals its true angelic face to Hibiscus, burning his eyes from his skull, and Hibiscus confesses to his crimes. Hibiscus and his wife Glass are taken for rehabilitation as Lucille's community finally wakes up to the reality that monsters can still exist among them.

The headline events of Pet's monster hunt.

Jam asks her school teachers about traditional religious interpretations of angels and checks out library books on the topic.

Bitter warns Jam that monsters don't look like anything — identifying them is the whole problem.

Aloe comes home and urges Jam to forget about monsters entirely, wanting her to feel protected and safe.

Jam sneaks into Bitter's studio and feels ill examining the painting, unsettled by the razor blades embedded in the canvas.

Jam's injured hand throbs in rhythm with strange sounds coming from Bitter's studio throughout the night.

Pet carefully removes razor blades from its chest and explains they were not part of the painted door.

Bitter and Aloe argue when Bitter dismisses the idea that Aloe can control what she is allowed to paint.

Jam and Redemption go to the movies together as they do every weekend before visiting Redemption's family at home.

Glass and Hibiscus arrive for dinner at Redemption's house, and Moss scrapes his arms and refuses to be touched.

Pet appears beside Jam on her walk home and challenges her willingness to confront what is hidden at Redemption's house.

Pet reveals itself to Redemption in Bitter's studio and Redemption is overwhelmed with awe at its appearance.

Redemption tells Jam about Moss's many bruises and his terror of being bathed by anyone but their mother.

Jam convinces an enraged Redemption to come to her house instead of going home to confront the monster directly.

Pet teleports Jam invisibly into Redemption's house to watch Redemption try and fail to gather courage to speak to his parents.

Redemption calls Jam in tears after his parents refuse to believe him about the abuse, and the two friends reconcile.

Before Pet ever appears, Jam is already asking questions about angels and monsters, checking out religious texts and hearing her mother's warnings that monsters never look like what people expect. When Pet emerges and confronts her parents, a parallel drama unfolds as Bitter and Aloe argue about Pet's existence and the dangers of Bitter's art coming to life. Jam scouts Redemption's house during a family dinner, seeing Hibiscus and Glass in person but failing to detect anything wrong, while noticing that Moss avoids being touched. After Pet challenges Jam on her walk home, she confides in Redemption and Pet dramatically reveals itself to him before they head to the library together. As Redemption processes the devastating truth about Moss's abuse, Jam must manage his rage before Pet teleports her invisibly to witness Redemption's painful and failed attempt to convince his parents that a monster lives among them. The pool closes with Redemption calling Jam in tears after his parents refuse to believe him, and the two friends reconciling despite the weight of what they now know.

The hidden moments that shaped Jam's journey.

Jam helps Pet unsnag its ram's horn from the canvas as the creature awkwardly struggles to emerge from the painting.

Pet is hurt when Jam mentally labels it a monster and insists that things are never simply what they appear.

Pet wraps its arms around a dissociating Jam and chides Bitter and Aloe for failing to notice their own daughter.

Aloe tells Jam that Bitter once summoned a creature from a painting before the revolution and people were hurt as a result.

Jam and Redemption discuss how the angels identified monsters during the revolution and decide to research the topic at the library.

Pet explains that it can inhabit a parallel mirror world, remaining invisible to others while staying fully visible to Jam.

Jam feels increasingly cut off from her parents and unable to forgive them for dismissing her fears about the monster.

Jam suffers a panic attack thinking about telling Redemption the full truth, and Pet holds her until she calms down.

Redemption discovers that Jam knew all along the monster was in his house and runs out of her home.

Redemption blocks Jam's phone number and her apology message fails to reach him.

Redemption confronts Hibiscus about abusing Moss, and when Hibiscus feigns ignorance, Redemption punches him in the face.

Hibiscus breaks down and admits he tried to fight his urges for a long time before they overpowered him.

Pet breathes yellow smoke into Hibiscus's face to compel him to confess his crimes to the community.

Bitter reveals to Jam after the hearing that supernatural creatures like Pet also assisted the human angels during the original revolution.

Pet says goodbye to Jam and disappears after she promises to hold on to the words 'do not be afraid.'

From the moment Pet asserts it is not a monster and Jam helps free it from the canvas, the story becomes a series of revelations that force Jam to confront uncomfortable truths about the world she thought she knew. Jam learns from her father that Bitter's art has summoned dangerous creatures before, and Pet reveals it can conceal itself in a parallel mirror world, deepening Jam's understanding of what remains unseen. As Jam grows more isolated from her parents and struggles to protect Redemption from the full truth, she suffers a panic attack before confiding in him, only to be devastated when he discovers her deception and cuts off all contact. The climactic confrontation in the basement brings a cascade of further revelations: Hibiscus's admission that he tried to resist his urges, Pet's use of yellow smoke to force a confession, and the blinding moment that makes Jam recognize Pet as a true biblical angel. In the aftermath, Bitter discloses that supernatural beings like Pet aided the original revolution, reframing everything Jam thought she knew about history. Pet ends by making Jam promise to carry its parting words with her always before vanishing, leaving Jam irrevocably transformed by everything she has chosen to see.