On the first day of her honeymoon a young woman inadvertently discovers that she's a descendant of a pod of mermaids once revered for their unrelenting disruption of the slave trade across the Atlantic. As the tensions rise between the remaining mermaids who face looming rediscovery, what role will she play in the future of her people? As technology continues to make the deep ocean more and more accessible by the decade, what will happen if myths from the past refuse to stay lost to the tides of time?