Ripples is the wordless story of Ondine, the local mermaid who nightly clashes her cymbals and sounds her conch on Red Ledge, a pile of rocks in the Woods Hole Passage.

Ripples is the wordless story of Ondine, the local mermaid who nightly clashes her cymbals and sounds her conch on Red Ledge, a pile of rocks in the Woods Hole Passage, of the Sea Widow who obsessively consults the seaweed and summons an unfathomable ocean power at the end of on dock on the channel leading from an inner harbor to Vineyard Sound and of The Dancer Who Came to the Show.