What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.

Situé dans les années 1890, un récit de la sanglante émancipation des Philippines de la tutelle espagnole à travers trois personnages, dont la révolution nationale bouleverse l’existence.