Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.

Giunto a Manila dalla provincia, il giovane Paul entra in un giro di prostituzione gay. Istruito dai ragazzi del bordello, diventa uno spogliarellista: ma la polizia taglieggia brutalmente i “macho dancer” e, dopo un pestaggio, Paul trova l’aiuto e l’amore di una prostituta e l’amicizia di un “collega” la cui sorella è scomparsa. I due la troveranno in un bordello e cercheranno di strapparla ai protettori.

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.

A typical story of a hopeless Filipino worker whose last resort is to work abroad to save his family from poverty. Melo trudge the desert to look for greener pasture but it seems like it is too far and hard to reach. His family here in the Philippines was left in a maze and each of them had to find his/her way out. On his homecoming, which welcome will hurt him most: his torn pocket or his broken home and heart?