Ondine 2010 Hey what's up guys. Today I'll
show you a romantic drama film: "Ondine"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a fisherman named Sam, trawling along the sea to catch fish. He drags
his net out of the seawater, and surprisingly finds a beautiful woman caught by the net. He
figures out that she is still alive, so he resuscitates her. She gains consciousness,
and wonders about her surroundings. She utters that she is already dead. he lets her realize
that she is still alive. He offers to bring her to the hospital. But she refuses since she does
not want to be exposed to other people. Because of this, he lets her stay in an isolated house,
where he used to live during his childhood. Sam leaves as he's already late for picking up
her sick daughter, "Annie", who is currently in a wheelchair. He brings Annie to her dialysis.
There, he tells her a story about a fisherman, who accidentally caught a beautiful woman in the
sea. Annie asks if the woman is a mermaid or a selkie. He asks Annie about the selkie, and she
replies that a selkie is a seal woman, who sings in the Seal Rock. She adds that a selkie lives on
land once she loses her seal coat, and she goes back when the sea calls her. After the dialysis,
Sam brings Annie back to her mother's home. It turns out, Sam got divorced from Annie's mother,
Maura, and Annie currently lives with her mother and her mother's new boyfriend.
Both Maura and her boyfriend are alcoholics who are always drunk. Maura scolds Sam for
being late earlier, because he misses the appointment with the doctor. Apparently,
Annie needs kidney transplants, and the doctor has a piece of news about a possible kidney donor.
Sam goes back to the beautiful woman that he caught on the net, and he finds her singing
a song in an unknown language. She comes with him to the sea as he goes fishing. There, she
introduces herself as "Ondine", which means "she came from the water". He pulls up the lobster,
and notices that every time Ondine sings, the lobster traps have a catch. He then says that
Ondine brings him luck, since it is his first time to have a plentiful lobster catch. He proceeds to
sell the lobsters in the market, and he buys new clothes for Ondine as her share of the profit.
After that, he picks up Annie at the school. He continues the story of the fisherman and
the sea woman. He narrates that the sea woman is singing for the fisherman. Annie says that the
sea woman must be a selkie, since singing is their way to communicate underwater.
Sam goes back to Ondine, and Annie follows him out of curiosity. He gives the new clothes to
Ondine. It appears that she does not know how to wear clothes properly. Ondine says that she
will stay as long as he wants her to stay. He replies she can stay forever and happily
ever after like a fairytale. Annie listens to their conversation, and she figures out
that the story of the fisherman and sea woman refers to Sam and Ondine. She then comes to
the library to borrow books about selkies. Sam goes to the church where he confesses
his development. Apparently, Sam and Maura are formerly alcoholics. This is why people in their
town tag Sam as Circus. But Sam shares that he stops being an alcoholic for his daughter,
while Maura continues to be an alcoholic. He then confesses to the priest that he has been sober
for a long time after he broke up with Maura. He recalls that he has a recurring dream, where he
is at Maura's boyfriend's funeral, and he is back living with Maura who is still a drunkard. He also
shares that he catches a woman through a net. The following day, Annie visits Ondine,
and she says she wants to be friends with Ondine. She tells Ondine that she has kidney failure,
and she wishes Ondine to make her feel better. Annie asks her about her seal coat, suspecting
that Ondine is a selkie. Annie shares that selkies cannot go back to the sea without their seal coat.
Apparently, selkies can stay in the land, by burying their seal coats in the land. Then,
selkies can stay for seven years on the land, until they finally find unexpected
happiness with a landsman. After they talk for a while, Ondine gives Annie a goodbye kiss.
Meanwhile, Sam goes to the library to research selkies. But the librarian informs
him that Annie already borrowed them. Sam soon visits Ondine, and he finds her
wearing his gift dress. She comes with him again, fishing in the sea. The coast guards
pass through their boat, prompting her to hide. After the coast guards were gone,
she sang again, and the trawling net caught a lot of salmon. He is surprised to find a salmon catch,
since it's impossible to catch salmon by trawling. The coast guards check their boat, and they wonder
how Sam caught the salmon fishes. They do not believe Sam that he caught it by trawling. Sam and
Ondine sail back to the harbor. There, everyone is mystified by Ondine's beauty. On the other side,
a strange man is seen observing Ondine from afar. Sam sells the salmon; and after that,
he brings Ondine to the clothing store to let her choose. Annie accompanies them, saying Sam's story
is based on a true story. In the clothing store, Annie helps Ondine choose clothes.
The next day, Ondine helps Annie swim in the water. There, Ondine accidentally finds her
seal coat. Annie says that they must bury it, so Ondine can stay on land for seven
years. They then bury it together in the land. Later, Sam and the two girls are sailing along
the sea. There, Annie shares with Sam that Ondine can now stay on land for seven years,
until her selkie husband claims her back. She also shares that Ondine can grant wishes. But
Ondine denies being a selkie herself. To test if Ondine can breathe underwater,
Annie deliberately jumps into the deep seawater. Ondine then jumps into the water to save her.
After that, Sam brings Annie back to Maura. Maura interrogates her about Sam's new woman.
Meanwhile, Sam and Ondine go back to his childhood house. She asks why people called him a circus
clown. He answers people calling him a circus because he is always drunk. He then shares
that he changed because of Annie. He wants to give Annie a better life by being sober. But In return,
Maura kicked him out of the house. Unfortunately for him, he cannot get custody of Annie since he
is only a fisherman. After they talk about his former life, they begin to wrestle their muscles.
The following day, Sam confesses to the priest that he has been having good luck since the day
he met Ondine. He shares that he is beginning to have hope in life, thinking that something
wonderful is about to happen. But He is afraid of having hope since he is not used to it.
He walks out of the church, and the strange man from earlier approaches him. The strange
man asks him about Ondine; but he simply pushes the strange man away. He then picks up Annie,
and brings her back to Maura. However, Maura and her boyfriend are out drinking
in the bar. So he accompanies Annie to them. Meanwhile, Ondine notices the strange man is
looking for her, prompting her to hide. It turns out, the strange man is Ondine's
husband. Sam soon comes to visit Ondine. But he finds his childhood house is in a
complete mess, while Ondine is nowhere to be found. He frantically looks for her,
and he finds her hiding. She shares that her selkie husband is on land to get her back. He
then asks her to wish to push her selkie husband away. But she says she cannot do
that. So she just wishes for Annie to be alright, and Sam wishes her to stay.
That night, Ondine's husband is driving in rage, while Maura is drunk driving with her boyfriend
and her daughter. He accidentally hits Maura's car. The impact greatly injures the boyfriend,
as he flies out of the car windshield. Later, Sam and Ondine are driving around
the town, when they find the aftermath of the accident. The rescuers bring the man and Annie
to the hospital. Maura's boyfriend died from the injuries. But the doctors find out that his
tissue matches Annie. The doctors then transplant his kidney to Annie to cure her kidney failure.
Meanwhile, the husband confronts Ondine, saying that they do not belong on land.
But She tells him to go back to the sea. Sam soon attends Maura's boyfriend's wake.
There, she tells him to take their daughter back into his custody. The two get drunk,
as Maura forces Sam to drink with respect to her boyfriend's wake. As they drink together,
she tells him to get rid of Ondine, saying that Ondine brings bad luck after good luck. Believing
that, The drunk Sam then goes to Ondine, who is hiding in his boat. He abruptly tells her that
he will be taking her back home. But afraid that she will haunt him, he leaves her alone
in the lighthouse. He tells her that landsmen like him do not belong with selkies like her.
Later, the priest finds Sam sleeping in the tree. The priest tells Sam that he cannot take good
luck, because it is easier to be miserable. Sam picks up Annie, and he brings her back to
his home. There, Annie shares that Ondine will soon be back, because she left something there.
The next day, Sam wakes up sober from drunkenness. He hears a selkie song on the television, which
makes him remember Ondine. He then sails back to the lighthouse, where he asks Ondine if she
is really a selkie. He searches the lighthouse, but she is nowhere to be found. He keeps looking,
until he finds her silhouette in Seal Rock. There, she reveals that she is actually a drug mule from
Romania. Apparently, she and her husband are being chased by the coast guards. During that time,
her husband made her jump into the water with the drug, because her husband cannot
swim. She kept swimming in the sea, until she could swim no more. She sank into the water,
thinking that she would die. But luckily at that time, Sam found her and saved her life.
Sam brings Ondine back to their home, where her husband and a gunman ambush them. The husband
asks for Ondine's seal coat. Annie refuses to reveal its location, since this means that
Ondine will be back to the sea. But the husband threatens them, so Ondine reveals its location.
They keep digging in the ground, but the seal coat is nowhere to be found. It turns out,
Annie had moved its location, since she didn't want Ondine to leave. As they cannot find it,
the husband smashes the ground with the shovel out of rage. He then threatens to hurt Annie. To let
Annie tell the location of the seal coat, Ondine promises Annie that she will stay as long as Annie
wants. Annie reveals to them that she moved it to the lobster pot. They sail back to sea to
search for the lobster pot. As her husband is busy dragging the lobster pot, Ondine pulls the rope,
which pushes the man out of the boat. Sam instantly pushes the gunman into the water,
and disarms the gunman. The husband eventually drowns to death, while the gunman is arrested.
Ondine faces deportation as she is a non-national. So Sam needs to marry her, in order to prevent
her from being deported. Annie confesses to the priest that Sam will marry Ondine. She
then asks the priest to host their wedding. Sam and Ondine eventually get married. In the end,
Sam and Ondine can now finally fulfill the fairytale, where they happily lived ever after.
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