In a village on the coast of Maine, a fisherman works to provide for his wife and their handsome blind son. One day, a beautiful merman (Peter Hermann) rises out of the sea and develops a strange, magical attraction to the youth.

Todd Haynes co-produced a handful of lo-fi independent films in the ’80s and ’90s—this half-hour aquamarine gem among them. Misty with sea salt and as seductive as a siren call, the film lets the porous pleasures of queer, interracial erotics loose when a merman washes up on a shimmering shoreline.