Desiree Dieu-Donne rescues the handsome Daniel Beauxhomme after a car crash and, from the edge of death, nurses him back to health Her world is ruled by poverty and exhausting labour, and the unpredictable temper of the gods His is a life of ease and wealth But, for a time, even their differences in class and colour dissolve in the face of their love - a Caribbean retelling of the tragic old story 'The Little Mermaid', by an author born in Trinidad