Born to a Portuguese marine surveyor and a Cape Verdean fisherwoman, Rafaela grows up charting coral reefs off the Atlantic archipelago before her latent psychokinetic gift surfaces during a storm that nearly sinks her father's boat. She now guards the submerged causeway at Bimini Road, her dual heritage letting her read both open-ocean currents and coastal reef patterns that other cats cannot sense, warning coastal villages of Mirov incursions before they surface.