Anak Alon (Daughters of the Sea)

Short Synopsis

Lucia is perpetually curious. She is a museum tour guide who specializes in maps - lives life through two people. First is Raquel, whose fisherman husband disappeared in the sea. She was pregnant with their daughter, and also hopeful of a future with the family she always wanted. Five years later, she is still waiting. Through myths in the fishing village about a sighting of her husband, him visiting Raquel in her dream and questions asked by their daughter who never had a father, Raquel decides to look for him.

At 60 years old Dewey’s world is his pet shop. While running errands, he stumbles upon a dying mermaid at the wet market and decides to take care of it. Along with his neighbor, they form a relationship that is built between their effort in keeping the mermaid alive. Slowly we realize that his affinity with the creature stems from the fact that he is a descendant of mermaids in the Philippines.

Lucia lives through other's mysteries to find comfort in her own. She has never met her biological father. For work she is assigned to pick-up original copies of Philippine maps in Spain. She travels from Manila to Madrid where she meets Danilo, the cartographer who is assigned for the project with whom she finds a unique connection. While doing an interview with him, she discovers that the special connection stems from the coincidence that he is the father she never met. Oceans connect these characters that are like islands - with little worlds, contained in space and time.