A young Caribbean merwoman decides to bring her friends to explore living on land, but the trip puts them in horrible danger. Upon returning underwater, she must face the consequences of putting her entire community at risk.

A forbidden love, a tempest, and miscarriage bring turbulence to Santos’s life.

In New Orleans, two sisters survive Hurricane Katrina, but one is left unalterably damaged by the storm.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.

When a mysterious object threatens to kill the ocean ecosystem, the headmistress of a women's university in Africa and her students must traverse the waters to find the mad scientist responsible for putting it there.

After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.

A boy and his best friend face a tidal wave in coastal Japan, but only the boy surfaces. The boy reflects as an old man, blaming himself for not helping his friend escape and wondering if the friend survived.

A couple aboard their pleasure yacht on the Amazon River begins to experience the strangest sense of déjà vu, noticing from the quality of the food and their memories of previous days on the ship that their actions seem to repeat.

Tara Ortey, mayor of a sunken Florida town, finds herself torn between saving her people and saving her son.

When a Haitian woman and her mother get on a boat to emigrate to Miami in the mid-twentieth century, chaos ensues as the passengers realize they are ill-equipped for the journey.