![]() It's so incredibly true to the original story that reading it is a bit like playing a very difficult game of spot the difference. ![]() ![]() Actually, retelling perhaps isn't the best word – it's more of a fleshing out. Mermaid is a retelling of the classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. She doesn't realise that the mermaid too loves him, and is prepared to do anything to be with her love, even if it means giving up the sea. When the mermaid signals her on the beach, she feels that call, feels that the drowning man was sent for her to save, for her to love. Stowed away in a convent to keep her safe from the impending war, Margrethe longs to feel the call the nuns do – the devotion to a cause. Human Princess Margrethe is the girl on the cliff. Carrying him to the shore, she calls out to a human girl on the cliffs to do what she cannot – to bring him to real shelter and warmth. When Lenia lays her eyes on one man in particular, she knows she has to save him. Though it's stormy and dangerous, she can't resist a trip to the surface, where a boat is sinking, human men drowning all around her. ![]() Tired of life underwater, she dreams of her eighteenth birthday when she's allowed to spend one day in the realm of humans. The first, Lenia, is a mermaid, Princess of the sea. On a stormy night, two very different Princesses save the life of a drowning man. ![]()
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