Ningyo

In a country where imagination is forbidden, a boy rescues a fish that becomes a mermaid in his eyes. What feels like a wondrous encounter to him is treated as a crime by authorities unwilling to tolerate a reality they cannot share.

Arrested and pressured to abandon his imagination, he struggles to preserve the vision that made the mermaid real to him. His attachment becomes a defense of the inner freedom his society is determined to erase.