Ten-Cent Daisy: A Lost Mermaid Tale is a 2021 American fantasy drama film by Lisbon Okafor.

[1] Three sisters, Orchid, Violet, and Daisy, who fled their childhood home in the Caribbean West Indies, now live in California and are semi-estranged.

The sisters’ mother, Iris, has been in prison back home for the murder of Pastor John Patrick, a man accused of raping Daisy when she was a child.

Meera is working with Inspector Leonce and has filled a pool in her backyard with imported saltwater, supposedly for a new species of exotic fish.

She raised her as her own, but the local pastor John Patrick called her a spirit child and led the town to shun her.

These events drove a wedge between the older sisters, and eventually Violet left while Orchid raised Zara.

The film ends with a shot of Daisy and Zara walking together through the trees towards the waters of the Caribbean, and briefly shows their mermaid tails as they swim out to sea.

[2] The original script written in 2003 was about a family returning home to bury their matriarch, and Okafor added supernatural elements while telling his daughter myth-inspired versions of the story involving mermaids.

[3] Funds for post-production were raised through Kickstarter, and the film drew attention for its depiction of Black mermaids.

Black Girl Nerds' Stacey Yvonne found the film engaging although occasionally confusing with the number of subplots, praised the performances of Lauren Michelle and Ameenah Kaplan, and stated that the film is "worth a viewing if you’re a fan of modernized retellings of African myths.

[7] The film has been noted by scholars for depicting Black mermaids, and has been compared to modern examinations of Mami Wata spirits and works such as Gabrielle Tesfaye's stop-motion film The Water Will Carry Us Home (2018) and Drexciya's music, which depict pregnant West African women lost at sea during the Middle Passage becoming mermaid-like spirits.