The Whale Star – The Gyeongseong Mermaid

“if the life that you had regained, was one that i had breathed back into you… is it too much to hope for you to love me back with that life?” the year is 1926, in japan-occupied joseon. 17-year-old soo-a is an illiterate handmaiden working for the household of a prominent japanese collaborator. one day, she discovered an injured young man lying unconscious at the beach, an independence activist called eui-hyeon. the sweet and innocent soo-a nursed him back to health, and eui-hyeon told her the tale of the “little mermaid”, a princess of the sea who saved a prince from his death. having fallen in love with eui-hyeon, soo-a was determined to meet him once again. but she knew not then, of the fate that awaited the “little mermaid” on her quest to reunite with her beloved.