On a distant alien world, a teenage girl enters a partnership with one of the native merfolk by merging with her, body and soul. The bond between them, though, will become more powerful than either of them imagined.
A woman purposely infects herself with an alien parasite that transforms her into a monster in order go to find her wife and restart their life together. However this go awry and she finds her star ship crashing into paradise. Can she make it off world, all while evading a humanity that's turned against her?