Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to sell the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. A beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.