Ariel is a mermaid princess whose father is King Triton, the supreme ruler of the seabed and the ocean, and she is not entirely happy with her life under the sea, as she is curious about the world of humans. Together with her best friend, the fish Flounder, Ariel collects human artifacts and frequently goes to the surface of the ocean to meet Scuttle, a seagull, who tells her about the human world, although in a way that is not very accurate with reality. The young mermaid princess Ariel ignores the warnings of her father, and her friend, the crab Sebastian, who tell her that contact between the kingdom of mermaids and mermen and the kingdom of humans is forbidden because of the cruelty of these to marine life. The truth is that Ariel dreams of becoming a human girl and thus living in that happy world with the man of her dreams who has so excited her.
