Some fairy tales never die. The little mermaid lives again, not in rural Denmark this time, but in a strange phantasmagoric inner city world of rain and neon. Here princes are fire-eaters, princesses transvestites, and witches walk high-wires. The mermaid, still out of her element and looking for love, gardens by day and clubs by night. But just because a story is retold, need the ending be the same?