In this action, adventure, comedy movie, beginning with a mirror flashback, the Wang family sings karaoke. Their chaotic household belies their happy small family. Mother Evelyn cooks, does laundry, and prepares for a tax audit. Her easygoing husband Waymond is trying to talk to her about their relationship but failing. Evelyn hasn’t had time to discuss his divorce paper.
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As Evelyn continues her hectic life, her rebellious daughter Joy arrives with her girlfriend Becky to help the family set up their Chinese New Year party tonight. Joy wants Becky to meet Gong-Gong, but Evelyn thinks he’s too old to accept his granddaughter’s lesbianism. Joy accuses Evelyn of using Gong-Gong to hide her disapproval of Joy’s sexuality, indicating a strained mother-daughter relationship. Evelyn chastises Waymond for putting googly eyes on their customer’s laundry and dancing with another customer instead of working.
Gong-Gong demands breakfast. Joy calls Becky her girlfriend in her limited Cantonese but doesn’t know the word. Evelyn introduces Becky as Joy’s best friend, making Joy furious and leave the laundromat. Evelyn stops her as she enters her car to show love or concern. She says Joy needs to eat better because she’s getting fat, seeming uncomfortable expressing her love for her daughter. Sighing, Joy drives away.
Later that day, Evelyn, Waymond, and Gong-Gong visit their IRS auditor. Waymond changes in the elevator. He warns Evelyn from behind his umbrella. He puts earpieces on Evelyn and scans her mind with his phone, showing her her entire life, including Gong Gong disowning her for choosing Waymond and moving to America. She doesn’t understand Waymond, but he says he’s running out of time and writes Evelyn’s audit meeting instructions on the back of a file. Waymond returns to normal before reaching their floor.
The family’s auditor, Deirdre, suspects fraud. Evelyn reads Waymond’s instructions distractedly. She changes her shoes, imagines herself in the janitor’s room, and presses the earpiece’s green buttons to travel to another world. She’s listening to Deirdre’s audit while waiting for the other Waymond. The other Waymond claims to be from the Alphaverse. They traveled between his universes using a phone mapping app.
He told Evelyn to switch shoes because the program lets him “possess” his other selves in other universes and gain their unique abilities by doing something weird. Alpha Waymond claims JobuTupaki, an unstoppable villain, is destroying the multiverse. Jobu has been searching the multiverse for this universe’s Evelyn to stop him. An alternate Deirdre breaks into the janitor’s room and kills Waymond before punching Evelyn.
The audit meeting awakens her. Deirdre gives them until tonight to fix their audit report, so the family leaves her desk. Waymond thinks Evelyn is acting strange because she read the divorce papers, where the instructions were written earlier, but misinterpreted them as Alpha Waymond talking to her. Evelyn punches Deirdre, prompting security.
Security guards interrupt when Evelyn finds the divorce papers. Alpha Waymond returns and eats lip balm to defeat the guards. Panicking coworkers lets them sneak around. Alpha Waymond says Jobu is Alpha Joy, whose mind was broken by Evelyn’s universe jumps. After traveling the universe and controlling matter, Jobu loses all morality. Alpha Waymond believes Evelyn can stop her from creating a multiverse-destroying chaotic object.
Sumo-possessed Deirdre attacks. Evelyn universe jumps to learn martial arts from trapped Alpha Waymond. She fails and jumps into a close-branching universe, making Alpha Waymond think she can’t beat Jobu and leave. Evelyn becomes a martial arts star after Waymond returns. She can now beat Alpha Deirdre. After waking up, she and Alpha Waymond are arrested.
Jobu enters the universe and alters reality to attack the police. Evelyn panics and universe jumps again, landing in a universe where humans have hot dog fingers. Her universe-jumping impresses Alpha Waymond’s team but doesn’t help her fight Jobu, who doesn’t want to hurt Evelyn. Evelyn should meet Jobu’s Alpha Waymond-fearing creation. Jobu makes the universe a bagel-shaped black hole. Evelyn eats the bagel after Alpha Gong-Gong attacks Jobu in a futuristic wheelchair. She attacks Alpha Waymond’s Alphaverse team regardless.
Alpha Waymond awakens in Evelyn’s universe and debates their team’s strategy with Alpha Gong-Gong. Evelyn binds Joy. Alpha Waymond recovers after Jobu attacks him in the Alphaverse. Evelyn fights Alpha Gong-Gong, who wants to kill Joy to stop Jobu from reclaiming her body. Alpha Gong-Gong sends Alpha troops to this universe to stop the family when she refuses. Evelyn’s alternates fight the troops, confusing Joy and Waymond. Alpha Waymond returns to her universe to find Evelyn a powerful fighter. He’s proud of Evelyn’s progress but sad that Jobu killed his Alphaverse body.
Jobu fights Evelyn in her universe, but Evelyn’s soul cracks like Jobu’s. Stress kills her, unlike Jobu. Waymond is devastated, while Jobu is disappointed but unsurprised.
Evelyn’s consciousness travels the multiverse. Reuniting with Waymond as an actress, dating Deirdre in the hot dog fingers universe, singing, and even returning home after the tax audit and party preparations. She inhabits every universe like Jobu. Evelyn returns to her universe while living in others. Evelyn confronts Joy and makes Jobu attend the Chinese New Year party. They battle in many universes without jumping devices. Jobu shows her that crazy things exist.
They reach Jobu’s all-bagel universe. They agree that nothing matters, and Jobu says she’s been seeking Evelyn because she wants someone else to feel what she feels—constantly living uncountable lives. They’ll only find peace in a lifeless universe. Evelyn loses interest in her multiple universe relationships after realizing how insignificant human lives are. She trashes the laundromat after signing Waymond’s divorce papers. In her home universe, she hugs Waymond before stabbing him in the side with glass.
Jobu wants to die in the bagel. Evelyn initially joins her. Waymond’s voice from the actress’ universe says Evelyn misjudged his generosity and kindness as weakness. He says he would have loved running a laundromat with Evelyn and their daughter instead of his glamorous life and leaves her there. Evelyn appreciates her multiverse good times. She realizes how much love, compassion, and understanding she has received in each universe, even from Deirdre, who gave them another chance to audit after Evelyn discovered the divorce papers. Evelyn returns to her bagel universe home, where Waymond tells everyone to stop fighting because they’re scared and confused. Evelyn embraces her multiverse partners.
Jobu’s bagel consumes Evelyn’s universe. Jobu wants to enter the bagel, but the Alphaverse troops must kill Evelyn. Like Jobu, she turns bullets into googly eyes. After learning about their lives in other universes, Evelyn fights them lovingly. She mends other universe relationships. She stops Jobu from entering the bagel after defeating the troops by giving them what they want. Alpha Gong-Gong tells Evelyn to release her daughter. Evelyn vows to keep Gong-Gong. In the laundromat universe, she tells Gong-Gong that she and Joy are proud of their messy lives and bad decisions. Becky proudly introduces herself as Joy’s girlfriend. Joy escapes.
In Evelyn’s universe, Jobu fights Evelyn. Evelyn beats Jobu, and their family pulls him from the bagel. Joy says Evelyn hurts them outside the laundromat. Evelyn unexpectedly releases her. She releases Evelyn in all universes, including the bagel one. Evelyn chastises Joy outside the laundromat after Jobu falls into the bagel. She thinks living with her daughter is illogical. She says she will always be with Joy and cherish every moment with her daughter, no matter how small or fragmented her life is between universes. Joy embraces Evelyn after Jobu leaves the bagel.
Becky finally joins the family and drops them off at the IRS. Evelyn kisses Waymond in the building, strengthening her marriage and love. Deirdre applauds their receipts. Evelyn experiences the entire multiverse at the film’s end.
