Undine

In the misty forests of medieval Germany, a young knight named Huldbrand stumbles upon a fisherman's hut on a remote island, where he encounters Undine: a creature of water, wild and luminous, who has never known a soul. Raised by the old fisherman and his wife, Undine is at once captivating and unknowable, her beauty as dangerous as the storm that strands Huldbrand on the island. As days blur into weeks, the knight falls deeply in love with her, and Undine, desperate to possess what she has never had, consents to marry him. But the price of her humanity is terrible, and when Huldbrand's heart turns toward his former love, Bertalda, Undine must return to the element that made her. This is a tale of longing, betrayal, and the drowning truth that some loves cannot survive the surface. One of the crown jewels of German Romanticism, Undine asks what it means to have a soul and what remains when love is taken away.