The story of the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once is a chaotic, genre-bending adventure that blends sci-fi, action, and deep family drama.

During a tense meeting at the IRS office, Evelyn is approached by —a version of her husband from a parallel "Alphaverse". He reveals that the multiverse is under threat from a powerful being known as Jobu Tupaki , who is actually an alternate version of Joy. Jobu’s mind was fractured after she was forced to experience every reality simultaneously, leading her to believe that because everything is possible, nothing actually matters. She has created an "Everything Bagel" —a black hole of nihilism intended to destroy all existence. Verse Jumping and "What-Ifs"

The story begins with , a Chinese-American immigrant who is overwhelmed by the "noise" of her life. She runs a struggling laundromat with her husband, Waymond , is being audited by a stern IRS agent named Deirdre, and is struggling to connect with her daughter, Joy , who is frustrated by her mother's lack of acceptance. At the same time, her demanding father, Gong Gong, has just arrived from China. The Multiversal Crisis