At Belinda’s urging, a down-on-her-luck mother uses her daughter, Sara, as a means to a better life. Soon, a promising college student enters a new world of glitz and glamour and a naïve little mermaid makes a deal with the infamous sea witch as both enter worlds wrought with betrayal and pain. This fish-out-of-water tale shows that even the best of intentions can lead to enduring heartache and proves the consequences of our fondest desires must be dealt with, whether we like it our not.
The Little Mermaid is contrasted against a young woman whose mother is being manipulated by Belinda. The young woman has lived in poverty her whole life but her mother thinks it is time that she start paying her back for her own years of suffering. Despite the fact that the young woman is working hard in university, her mother insists that she try to seduce a professional basketball player. The story has some similarities to the classic fairy tale though with some changes. The Little Mermaid comes to shipwreck and while her fellow mermaids drag the victims to a watery death, she saves the prince from drowning and desperate to enter the world of men she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to exchange her voice for a pair of legs. She meets again the prince and is wooed by him but without a voice she cannot convey her love to him. She instead has sex with him to show her love, but afterwards she discovers that he has sex with any woman he can find. Outside the Sea Witch chastises the Little Mermaid for her foolishness.
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