The mermaid bride

Taranto, southern Italy, early 19th century. Maria, like many women, leads a confined life at home, submissive and docile, waiting for her husband. But Angelo is a fisherman, and he sometimes ventures out to sea, never to return for several days, leaving his wife alone and worried. What if the legends about mermaids luring sailors with their songs, only to kill them in barbaric ways, were true ? What is true is the lowliness of human beings…