Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your foot soles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
- Sylvia Plath Morning Song
Alice Burchwood, a young girl living in a small medieval town by the North Mountain, finds herself revealed to a strange world. Folklore had stated the lake was cursed, however Alice didn't believe in it, until one day she finds herself in a alternative universe inhabited by under water creatures and Merpeople.
When they want to keep her as their own, Alice must chose between a life with with lover Peter, or one without a soul.
Which will she chose?