Sixteen year-old Kaiko Sullivan loves the water, but upon learning at an early age that he cannot swim, he is forced to stay on land and observe from his father's scientific aquarium. When his father calls him from school to see one of his discoveries, Kaiko is taken aback by the creature that lies within the water filled containment unit. Sullivan does all he can to learn about the creature, but in doing so he becomes closer to it than he wishes to admit. And just when these feelings start to become okay to him, his father tells him that he is "donating" it to some scientists for some extra cash, forcing Kaiko to step up his game and explain to his father the forbidden love he has fallen helplessly into.