Da 8-årige Ben og hans 4-årige søster Saoirses mor forsvinder, bliver de to børn sendt til byen for at bo hos deres bedstemor. De beslutter dog hurtigt at vende tilbage til deres hjem ved havet, men rejsen bliver et kapløb mod tiden, og på vejen bliver de to søskende trukket ind i en verden, som Ben ellers kun kendte fra de folkeeventyr, hans mor plejede at fortælle. Men dette er langt fra en godnathistorie, og det står hurtigt klart for Ben, at deres overlevelse afhænger af Saoirse.
Syracuse havde ikke regnet med at få en kvinde i nettet, da han tog ud i sin fiskerbåd. Men dér ligger hun: en smuk og heldigvis kun skindød skabning, som han giver kost og logi. Syracuses handicappede datter mener, at det mystiske hunkønsvæsen er en 'selkie' eller vandnymfe. Og eftersom fiskene vælter op i Syracuses trawler efter havfruens ankomst, er han villig til at godtage datterens teori.
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he's a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.
According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.
During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the traumatic events that connected her to the selkie realm - a world of mythical creatures who transform from seals into humans by shedding their skins. This poignant journey delves into the profound ties between folklore and the human experience.
A short film setting the Irish myth of the Selkie in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.