Days after Avery's death, Claudia (Avery's widower) discovers she and Hugo (her teenage son) are being evicted. Their predicament is exacerbated when Claudia loses her grocery clerk job, and attempts to rekindle an affair she had with Faye, a woman whose status might help save the house - all this Claudia keeps secret from her son. But Hugo has secrets of his own: he's plotting to run away from this small coastal California town - he and his best friend Trevor have been selling off Dad's things to fund their escape to L.A., where he plans to live his dream as a skater-artist. Meanwhile, details surrounding Avery's death hang in question, forcing Hugo and Claudia to reckon with the curses lodged in the house. Before They Drown throws reality into question as a consequence of grief impaired. The story asks: What delineates the mythic from the real in a deceptive world?
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