In a small village in Western Ireland, a fisherman named Circus (Colin Farrell) finds one day on the net of his fishing barge a woman who calls herself Ondine (Polish actress Alicja Bachleda Curus). The woman is disoriented and refuses to see other people. He gets her living arrangements in a old shack that belonged to his deceased mother. He tends to believe she is a mythical creature called a Selkie, a mermaid like creature from Irish folklore. She encourages him to believe this. They become increasingly warm to each other, and while she at first refuses to see other people, she slowly relents, and becomes friendly with his sick wheelchair bound young daughter. For the first hour, this film seems tender, attractive and entertaining; however, in the second part of the movie, it takes a turn for the worse (Warning: BIG SPOILER AHEAD) as it transpires than instead of a mythical figure, Ondine is a drug mule from Eastern Europe on the run from drug dealers. And our interest drops like a stone. Neil Jordan directed.
