THE PEARL is about kino family. He lives with his wife Juana and son Coyotito,who unfortunately gets stung by scorpion. Juana call for the doctor, who has very particular requirement for his pantients. Kino and Juana go to the doctor;s house anyway,but their race and poverty work againts then. The doctor won't treat Coyotito, so Kino goes pearl diving in the hope of hitting the jackpot.
This a good day for this family. Kino then finds a really,really big pearl. Word travels through town that Kino has hit the mother lode. Dollar sings immediately start running through everyone's brain as they all think about how to get in on Kino's new-found wealth. Meanwhile the doctor has shown up,all a apologies for being a rasict jerk earlier that morning.
After all of Kino's new 'friend" leave the hut,he and Juana go to sleep. Kino awakens in the middle of the night to find on intruder,well,intruding in his hut and trying to steal the pearl. The intruder smashes Kino on the head before departhing. As Juana nurses Kino's injury,she insists that the is evil and they better get rid of it. Kino refuses. The next day, Kino goes to sell pearl but no one offers him more than third of the pearl's real value. Furious,Kino decide to forget the pearl buyers and go straight to the capital.
Now, Kino’s a bit of a homebody, so a trip up north is a big deal. Juana again tries to dissuade him, but Kino refuses to listen, so Juana is helpless. Kino wakes up in the middle of the night to find his wife about two seconds away from chucking the pearl into the ocean. In keeping with his earlier aggressive outbreak, Kino resorts to his fists and beats his wife. As Kino makes his way back to the house, someone attacks him, and his house erupts in flames. Kino kills his attacker and he and Juana watch their hut burn to the ground.
As the couple hits the road the next night with their son, they discover trackers are on their tail. In a chase sequence, Kino tries to hide his family in the mountains as the trackers pursue them. Finally, they rest in some picturesque caves above a little stream. The trackers stop – guess where – at the stream. Deciding it’s time for some combat, Kino tells Juana to keep the baby quiet and makes his way down to the trackers. As he’s about to attack, Coyotito cries out and one of the men pulls out his rifle. Just as he shoots in Coyotito’s general direction, Kino pulls a Chuck Norris on the trackers and kills all of them.
Juana carries a bloody blanket with the remains of Coyotito and the couple walks tp the ocean, Kino flings the pearl out to the sea and it disappears.
