Miguel who dreams to be a musician.

Miguel is a young boy who wishes to pursue a career as a musician. He picked up singing and guitar playing. Despite his enormous devotion, Miguel is barred from performing in the talent contest because his great-grandfather abandoned his family for music. Miguel's grandma destroys his guitar to prevent him from participating.

Choice 1 : Pursue his dream.

Choice 2 : He listened to his grandma.

Pursue his dream.

While finding a guitar to use, Miguel then discovers something hidden in Imelda's photo – taken with her husband and an infant Coco – at the center of the family offerings: her husband (whose face is ripped out) was holding the guitar famously used by Ernesto. Concluding that he is Ernesto's great-great-grandson, Miguel is emboldened to steal the musician's guitar from his mausoleum to use in the show.

Choice 1 : Steal the musician's guitar.

Choice 2 : Don't steal the guitar.

He listened to his grandma.

Miguel decided to just not continue pursuing his dream of becoming a musician. He thinks that maybe his grandma is right that music is really a curse for their family, maybe it is the right thing to do for the good of all. That's why he just tries other things that will capture his interest aside from playing music.

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Steal the musician's guitar.

He plays a magic chord and finds that he is no longer visible or tangible to living people (only to Dante, a street dog he has befriended). Instead, he can see his skeletal dead relatives, who are visiting the Land of the Living on this holiday, and they can see him. They believe this is related to Imelda's inability to cross the bridge to the world of the living, and take Miguel to Land of the Dead to solve the puzzle.They learn that Imelda cannot cross because Miguel removed her portrait from the offerings. Furthermore, Miguel has to be restored to the Land of the Living before sunrise, or he will be one of the skeletal. It can be undone by a blessing of a family member such as Imelda; she gave Miguel her blessing with the condition of abandon his musical ambitions.

Choice 1 : Miguel disobeyed the condition.

Choice 2 : Accept her condition.

Don't steal the guitar.

He just doesn't mind the guitar that he saw because he thought that it was bad to just get things that are not yours or not asking permission from the owner. He decided to just go and find other ways where he could borrow or get a guitar for him to be able to participate in the talent contest.

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Miguel disobeyed the condition.

Miguel refuses and escapes to search for Ernesto, figuring he can get a blessing from that ancestor with no such conditions. Miguel encounters Hector, a down-on-his-luck skeleton who says he once played with Ernesto and died eating a Mexican-style sausage, and offers to take Miguel to him, in exchange for a favor of putting his picture on offerings, so he can cross the flower bridge to see his daughter.

Choice 1 : Agree to Hector's favor.

Accept her condition.

Miguel decided to just accept Imelda's condition and abandon his musical ambitions. He is afraid that if he refuses the offer, he will become one of the skeletal and will not be able to see or touch his family again.

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Agree to Hector's favor.

He agrees. To make the plan work, Hector paints Miguel's face to disguise as a skeleton and goes for a guitar from his friend who is fading because he has no remaining living relatives to remember him. His friend disappeared from the Land of the Dead soon after, and Miguel realizes Hector is in danger of being forgotten by the living, and he wants Miguel to take his photo back to his world so Hector can use it to visit his daughter one last time before she forgets him.

Choice 1 : Start finding Ernesto.

Start finding Ernesto.

Miguel and Hector manage to meet Freda Kahlo, who tells them they can get to meet Ernesto if they win a talent show to be his opening act. Hector is able to get a guitar from one of his neighbors, none of whom really have family to go home to. Soon they arrive at the contest Miguel decides to play "Remember Me" but after seeing the amount of performers who are also singing that song.

Choice 1 : Sing "Remember Me"

Choice 2 : Sing other song.

Sing "Remember Me"

He decided to sing "Remember Me" even though the others were also singing it. "Remember Me" is his favorite song, and he thinks that this song will help him win the contest. Unfortunately, he lost the contest, so he won't be able to see Ernesto until the sun rises.

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Sing other song.

Hee decides to sing "Poco Loco". At first, Miguel is nervous, but he manages to win the contest, but then Pepita and Rivera's find him, and he has to escape, and Hector is now angry that Miguel lied to him that Ernesto was his only relative, and he could have put his photo earlier. Just as Miguel is cornered by Imelda and Pepita, he argues that he won't accept her blessing if she won't let him do something he loves deeply, and she wouldn't understand how being a musician is, but she proves him wrong by singing a ranchero ballad. She tells him that she did love music and whenever her husband played it was all she needed, but after they had Coco, their daughter became more important than music. Imelda again tries to manipulate with Miguel, who refuses and runs off, feeling that his family will never support his passion.

Choice 1 : Unraveling the truth.

Choice 2 : Meet his great-grandfather Ernesto and bond with him.

Unraveling the truth.

Miguel introduces himself to Ernesto, who cheerfully welcomes him as his great-great-grandson. But just as Ernesto was about to give him his blessing, Hector gets into the party and confronts Miguel, feeling betrayed that the boy has reneged on their deal. In the confrontation, Miguel points out a detail that prompts Hector to realize that his death had not been accidental, with a scene from one of Ernesto's movies. Miguel figures out that Ernesto and Hector used to be partners in the music industry, but Hector wanted to go back to his family, but Ernesto was not a song writer and couldn’t work without his songs, so Ernesto did the unthinkable: he poisoned Hector’s tequila. After Hector's death, Ernesto used his songs – and his guitar – to become famous. Taking Hector's portrait, Ernesto betrays Hector and Miguel and puts them in a sinkhole.

Choice 1 : "Remember Me", the most awaiting finale

Meet his great-grandfather Ernesto and bond with him.

Miguel introduces himself to Ernesto, who cheerfully welcomes him as his great-great-grandson. The two bond at the party and playing together. Afterwards, Ernesto give him his blessing, and Miguel go back to his family.

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"Remember Me", the most awaiting finale.

In the sinkhole, Miguel tells Hector he was right and Miguel was worried that he should've listened to his family and that he couldn't trust Ernesto, but as Hector starts to fade, he tells Miguel that Coco is starting to forget him. Miguel shows the picture he took from the offering, and the two realizes that Miguel's great-great-grandfather is Hector. Upon knowing that Coco is dying, Hector will fade if she dies, as she is the only living relative that still remembers him, as he also told Miguel that he wrote the song Remember Me not for the world, but for Coco. As the sun rises, Hector begins to disappear. To save him, Imelda blesses Miguel without conditions, and he rushes to Coco's side. After failing to help Mamá Coco remember, a tearful Miguel is comforted by Luisa and Enrique, consoling that they are together now. Using Hector's old guitar, Miguel sings "Remember Me", a song that Hector used to sing to Coco during her childhood, which sparks her memory and revitalizes her. She retrieves from a bundle of mementos the missing piece of the photo from the offering, with Hector's face. With Coco's support, Miguel's family reconciles with him and accept music into their household. One year later, Miguel proudly presents the family offering– which now features Hector and a photo of the recently-deceased Coco to his new baby sister (who's named after Coco). Miguel's revelations about Ernesto have left him to be condemned by the world of the living, who now honor Hector in his place and his legacy. In the Land of the Dead, Hector and Imelda reunite with Coco, and then cross the bridge to see their living family, including Miguel, who sings and plays the guitar with his cousins who also became musicians for the living and deceased Rivera's.

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