Edna May Landicho

À Manille, dans les années 1980, Turing Manalastas et son épouse Luz, ouvriers dans une imprimerie, vivent modestement dans la capitale des Philippines en proie à des mouvements sociaux. Enceinte, la jeune femme est contrainte au repos forcé, et le couple à des dépenses supplémentaires. Turing parvient à un arrangement avec son employeur, Monsieur Lim, à condition qu'il n’adhère pas au syndicat qui est en train de se monter dans l’imprimerie. Malgré cela, ne pouvant payer l'hôpital où Luz a accouché, Turing doit accepter à contrecœur la proposition de Lando, un ami d'enfance, consistant à cambrioler la maison de Monsieur Lim.

The story starts as a seemingly simple crime of passion, Jimmy, the persistent suitor, is stabbed to death by Salome, the young and pretty wife of Kario, an ordinary farmer. But as the story unfolds, conflicting versions of the crime are given.

A strong-willed matriarch and her family leave their fishing village for Manila after an oil spill.

Inya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transvestite who, masquerading as a woman also named Inya, becomes the lover of the local Japanese commander, Ichiru, and is caught between a duty to be a spy for his country and friends and his reluctant but growing love for Ichiru.

Four disparate friends one a homosexual strive to be wonderful spouses and parents, yet despite good intentions, they all struggle with personal dramas. While Cynthia and her husband are no longer intimate, Mylene has learned her spouse is sleeping around. In the meantime, Louise fears her daughter isn't pretty enough, and gay foster father Mandy must come out of the closet.

Alice, Benjie and Andro are bank robbers who go into hiding in the jungle after one of them kills a civilian during a heist.