Six-year-old Alisa (Anastasiya Dontsova) is raised by her mother in a remote Russian seaside village. She has never met her father, a sailor, but she hopes that one day he will finally return to her ...

A little girl (an aspiring ballet dancer), a vivid imagination, and an absent father (a sailor on the vast ocean). These are the ingredients of «Mermaid», a Russian drama about guilt and dreams that ...