The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps 2018 Separated mother Kaoruko who has two offsprings from her estranged husband awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized That is the couples agreement Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident The dilemma is whether to pull the plug and donate the girls organs or await indefinitely to see if an unlikely healing will occur