Mermaid
A haunting, painterly meditation on lost love and cyclical longing, where memory and dream blur across generations in a rural monastery.
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
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