Ricky Davao
An author, whose marriage is on the rocks, meets his literary idol, his neighbor. He soon begins to have an affair with his idol's daughter. But when their secret is discovered, more revelations are yet to explode.
The story of two sisters who used to get along and love each other but will quarrel with the same man and test their sisterhood.
Mikey (Diether Ocampo) is at the peak of his career as a chef, but to everyone's confusion, he remains single and unattached. Unbeknownst to them, beneath his manly and innocent good looks lies an insatiable, dark secret. Armed with a telescope, he spies on unsuspecting women inside condo units across his own. One fateful night, his sights catch onto Kim (Nathalie Hart) as she makes love to her rich middle-aged partner, Rudy (Ricky Davao). Their worlds collide when Kim and Rudy begins frequenting the posh restaurant Mikey co-owns. With a common desire to satisfy their needs, Kim and Mikey embark on a dangerous love affair that puts their lives in peril.
The year is 1999. In a cold sleepy town in the Philippine mountains, Officer Sonny Cruz begins receiving mysterious voyeuristic videotapes of a missing woman who vanished three years prior. As he begins to investigate the tapes with his partner Officer Alice Lagaac, the two regular cops become entangled in a world of mystery, supernatural and the occult.”
The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.
Mithi develops an unlikely friendship with a malfunctioning robot named ANi. Together, they embark on a quest to look for magical grains that Mithi believes will save his grandfather's life.
Doña Atang, a once celebrated film producer from the earlier years of Filipino cinema, celebrates her one hundredth birthday. For her wish, she wants a reunion with all the actors and staff that she has worked with in the past. She is also looking for an unfinished film from one of her directors. Her grandson Michael decides to take the task of finding them. As he does, we remember the glorious years of cinema from its workers–fragments of a colorful past filled with faded memories.
Born with both male and female genitals, but raised like a boy by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, including a fascination with strange animals he takes for pets and being smitten by a lovely girl. His bucolic world turns upside down when he gets his first menstrual period setting him off on a journey that tests the spiritual and physical limits of sexual identity and into a new world of ambiguity and desire.
After learning that a group of doctors were killed by super natural forces, father’s Salvador and Benedicto will have their faith tested when they are tasked to perform an exorcism on a possessed woman named Clarita. Meanwhile, a photojournalist investigates the truth about Clarita’s possession and helps the two priests perform the exorcism. In their journey to help Clarita, they will encounter demonic obstacles that will prevent them from performing the exorcism.
It picks up where the series left off in its final episode as the relationship of Joee and Joey moves on to the next level. Joee is about to give birth while Joey remains in love with her and tries to become a responsible foster father.
Being the legitimate son, Janus was given the stressful responsibility to take care of his father’s funeral. With the presence of a senator, constant phone calls from his mother (who was in the United States), and the conflict between his scandalous sister and his father’s mistress; the funeral became dramatic, chaotic, and hilarious.
An aging spy, his delusional wife, and promiscuous son are driven into madness as they confront the terrors caused by the monster known as The Shadow.
Lia is set to marry Cebu's most eligible bachelor and mayoral candidate Philip. Conflict begins when Lia's ex boyfriend Wado works for them in a project that will potentially help Philip win the elections.
An 80-year old woman decides that she will be an old maid. But when the woman tries to leave her husband for sixty years, their children forbid their parents to separate.
A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.
A priest is caught up in a situation, which will compel him to choose between the mandate of the church and his obligations as a citizen under the law of the people.
A political family tries to hold on to their integrity and reputation as they face a difficult crisis.
Drug-dealing and sex-starved goons mistakenly disturbs the peaceful lives of a frail witch and her nubile grandchild in a remote town in the mountains.
Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.
Ely, a young man who can't get over Celine, his past love, meets Mia, a young woman who escaped from a painful past in the Philippines and is trying her luck to rebuild her life in Spain. They meet. They fall in love. But can they overcome the hurt of the past to have a future together?
An intertwined love stories within a dysfunctional extended family for three generations. It tells how each generation understands and perceives the idea of love.
Amid legalized corruption, a son struggles to prove to his father that he is fit to survive in a dog-eat-dog society.
Six men. Six failed marriage. One wedding to restore their faith in second chances. This is the bittersweet saga of six men who have separated from their wives. Inspired by true stories, their parallel and overlapping tales offer six different portraits of the failure of monogamy in a society where divorce is supposedly not an option. Ironically, fate and circumstance bring them together at a church wedding, where one of them takes a second chance at marital bliss.
Unlike the former Philippine First Lady, Imelda is indifferent towards shoes. To her, they are fraught with the bittersweet nostalgia of childhood, one that was marred by a difficult relationship with her shoe-maker father, Romeo. Growing up, all of hers were handmade by him. Now a mature woman, she takes a pivotal call from the morgue, spurring her search for the perfect pair of shoes for her dead father. The deeper she searches for the perfect shoes, the more she finds herself.
Amidst the vast sugar plantations of Negros in Southern Philippines, a matriarch lies in the throes of death. Her children rush home to confront the crisis as news of the impending death of their well-loved mother spreads among the community. There, in their ancestral house, the siblings are forced to deal with the issues of inheritance, tradition and the family legacy. It is a familiar tale. After all, every family has its story. And to each one, its own deserved secrets.
Crisanto Espina, A cop on investigation, is tasked to eliminate the suspects involved in the bank robbery/massacre that cocked the whole nation
This riveting feature film about redemption follows Frank Parish, a retired US fireman and philanthropist who finds himself wrongly accused of murder and jailed in the Philippines. Stuck in prison, Frank was beginning to lose faith in everything he believed in until he becomes friends with Mando, a convicted murderer who denies his passion for dancing just to prove his masculinity and Allona, a transsexual who tries to contribute to prison reforms by teaching his fellow inmates dance exercises. They get involved in a tricky struggle between the positive changes initiated by the new warden and the corrupt system that weighs down the inmates' chance to become better individuals. Frank finds himself caught in an intricate web of lies and must choose between concealing what he knows to keep himself out of danger or to help his fellow inmates by revealing the truth. Will he remain on the sidelines as an observer, or will he dance the dance of the steel bars?
A multi-plot story that tackles the pressing issues surrounding the modern-day family – drug addiction, infidelity, promiscuity and even abortion.
Sandy becomes a heart breaker after swearing off love. She leaves a trail of heartbroken men until her friend and a gorgeous co-worker compete for her heart.
“Hitman“ tells the story of Ben (played by Cesar), a man seeking revenge for the brutal death of his family committed by the very people who hired him to kill people. Along the way, he meets Gina (Sam Pinto) which compounds the situation and brings Ben to a crossroad. The story happens in just 48 hours with one scene vital to the next that viewers can’t afford to miss out on any one.
A group of government workers: their happy-go-lucky circumstance, failed responsibilities, and reckless work ethic. It delves into the world of a government agency where non-stop discussion of intrigues and personal frailties is the order of the day.
GMA Films and Viva Films are releasing a sequel to the 25-year old iconic sexy comedy film and they are calling it Working Girls 2010. The movie will include in the cast four of the original lead stars namely Maria Isabel Lopez, Gina Pareno, Carmi Martin and Rio Locsin. The remaining three are either abroad or not available.
Paano Na Kaya (lit: How Will It Be?, but more precisely, "How then?") is a 2010 romantic drama, Filipino film starring Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson and produced and released by Star Cinema.
Based on a true story and set in one of the most colorful periods in Philippine history, ROSARIO is destined to be a modern masterpiece in Philippine filmmaking. It is a monumental yet intimate portrait of a woman's emancipation and the sometimes painful consequencesof following one's desires.
The first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll. The second episode, is the tale of three girls, one of them the apple of the eye of a terrible engkanto, who then captures the girl. Punerarya the third story, is a story of a tutor teaching the children of the ghoul entrepreneurs of a funeral parlor.
Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one of their members. Melinda's struggling as a mother begand when she has nothing else to do but to strive and work more.
Love Online (LOL) is a modern comedy featuring the story of Samson and Lily, two individuals with different cultural backgrounds who managed to forge a connection through the Internet.
Arah dreams of a better life different from the life she knows in Bukidnon. Ranches everywhere are closing one by one. The glory her hometown once knew was slowly disappearing in favour of life abroad, particularly in Australia. Arah believes this too. Australia will save them from poverty. But Migo does not share this belief. He believes that Bukidnon’s glory will return if only people didn’t leave. Migo is Arah’s first love.
Assistant Production Designer Wilson Nañawa is tasked to look for a Last Supper to use as a prop for a TV commercial. He finds three, but loses the one owned by Gareth Pugeda. What happens next changes Wilson forever as he spends the next two years entangled in bureaucracy and red tape facing estafa and serious physical injury charges. How will this ordinary man fare against a system he knows nothing about? Will justice prevail for Wilson? Or will he be imprisoned for the loss of Last Supper No. 3?
Adela, (Philippines' screen legend Anita Linda) a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity. Adela is about the quiet moments in life that can fill us with either joy or sorrow.
A passionate cook named Mac who strikes up a very unlikely and riotous friendship with his happy-go-lucky co-worker Arthur. As both hit the bumpy road of their misadventures, the side-splitting companionship theyve found might be what matters the most.
A motley gang of characters that includes a movie star, a reporter, a congressman, a hairdresser, a jilted, suicidal lesbian and a gold-digging playgirl all end up in the same seedy motel on one very strange night.
Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician named Ariel who offers violin lessons to a child of the slums. Through the violin, the abused child Onyok is able to get back his voice from a mute, desensitized existence. A violin teacher and his student, a mute 7-year old abused child in a shelter, develop a friendship stemming from their love of music. Ariel discovers the immense talent of Onyok hiding behind a veneer of silence and pain caused by an unhappy and cruel father. In the developing relationship of teacher and student, both characters reveal more of themselves that otherwise may have remained unspoken. They discover each other's strengths and failures through the violin lessons.
Mark is a high school senior who makes a personal problem out of his parents break-up when his mother leaves home for another woman. The thought of being the butt of jokes for "having two fathers" horrifies him. All these worries and angst take the backseat when a new teacher comes to campus. Her name is Connie and she is an instant hit among the boys. It is love at first sight for Mark. However, Connie has an affair with Vincent, a married man.
The mysterious death of a young village lass leads to the investigation of those who knew her and what they may have to gain from her death. Told from the perspectives of the different characters, the film examines how one's view may lead to varying interpretations of the same incidents.
Louie receives a text message from the province that his father Ulding had a heart attack. Louie rushes to drive home from Manila only to find out that the message was nothing but a prank. Louie then senses something eerie about his hometown. He finds out there have been several killings in the area all done in the same manner. Apparently, the victim first hears some rumbling noise that is before they are found dead all covered with mud. When the killings move closer to home and threatens Louie’s family, he discovers for himself how he had been estranged from his roots and now must face his past with the horror of what is to happen.
Three uplifting stories of faith, compassion and courage provide the framework for this inspirational film. First, Jocelyn (Maricel Soriano), a victim of the mudslides in Leyte, finds strength in the face of tragedy; next, a family's adoption of a neglected young boy brings healing; and in the final chapter, widower Rudy Abad (Cesar Montano) decides to build a village in the Philippines in memory of his wife, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. - Maricel Soriano, Cesar Montano, Ricky Davao
Newlywed Jed and Angie this time, they have to take care of their son Raffa with parents who are all too eager to share the job with them. Compounding the problems are Jed having to deal with a hypochondriac mother, Angie having to deal with her mom dating a "balikbayan" guy, and the usual jealousy problems hounding married couples.
Inside the Rabadon house, nobody talks. Lives are kept to themselves; problems are not shared; questions are not entertained. The people living inside it have become used to leaving everything unstirred especially Margaret, the mother of the home. Margaret's desire for cleanliness and order alienates her from her family. She cannot confront the problems of her life and so she confronts dirty dishes, ugly stains, and disorderly appliances. To get to know her family, she snoops around - entering rooms, opening cabinets, reading journals she is not supposed to read. But everything changes when a journal entry of her daughter's makes her unravel, stirring the unstirred life that she has held on to for years.
A middle-aged man does everything he can to reunite with his mother, who he thought was dead.
An absurd, original and bawdy comedy about a hapless Boy, who tries to save his girlfriend, who is forced to work as a prostitute while trying to elude a drug dealer.
Jericho Rosales portrays Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as he struggles out of poverty to become a champion and national hero. Yet when the pressures of his sport, his personal life and the high expectations of his countrymen take their toll, he falls from grace. With the help of his wife (Bea Alonzo), will he be able to rise once more to be worthy of being called "the People's Champion"?
Pepot Artista is a comedy-musical that focuses on a ten-year-old boy whose dream is to become a movie star. Pepot, the dreamer, is surrounded by people who are equally dazzled by the movie world - from his own mother to the principal in his school to the impersonators in the neighborhood carnival. Coming from a poor family, Pepot overcomes adversity to have a chance at fulfilling his dream. He tackles school bullies, a strict teacher, and an unwelcoming world that fail to comprehend his intense desire to become a star. The story happens in the '70s when superstars brightened the film world in Pepot's country. The film explores the penchant of Filipinos for entertainment in the midst of serious social problems.
Far from being a senseless parade of beautiful bodies, "Bikini Open," is a satire on the current state of broadcast journalism in the country. That does not mean there won't be hot bodies in sexy swimwear.
Two cousins accomplish the final wish of their dying uncle to deliver a brown paper bag to a seedy, run-down hotel crawling with shady characters and retrieve in exchange a mysterious package.
After taking up with a charming cab driver, a wild and hedonistic teenage girl returns home to succeed her mother as a prayer woman.
A group of disparate women find comfort in one another when faced with heart-wrenching tragedy in this moving story. After a terrorist bombing at an airport kills many innocent victims, the lives of the family members who lost their loved ones are forever changed. In their anger, grief and disbelief, eight women of different generations and backgrounds forge a bond.
Sam and Louie meet aboard the Star Cruise. Despite being strangers and complete opposites, with Sam being carefree and Louie being obsessive-compulsive, they become unlikely acquaintances and eventually friends. Both pained on carrying life’s baggage before they took the cruise, Sam and Louie will never be the same person again after. For once in Louie’s rigid life, she is living for the moment and Sam lets his free spirit enjoy the ride.
While saving his brother's life, Benjo dies, but he decides to forgo the afterlife and remain on Earth as his family's protector in this touching supernatural drama. Determined to help his distraught and lonely mom, Benjo the wayward soul tries desperately to reach out to his loved ones, eventually finding help from another drifting spirit.
On his father's order Jason is taken from his lover. When he arrives at his father's mansion he meets Belinda and is instantly attracted to her. Because of his long estrangement to his father Jason is just discovering his father to be a violent person and decides to take Belinda and leave the mansion. But their governess begs them to stay. Complicated events follow all of which are caused by Belinda. Thrilling psychological drama about a runaway coed who enters the lives of father and son further complicate their relationship and later ruin their lives.
Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Ailing and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.
Isabel and Clara are two childhood friends separated by fate. Isabel is a naive provincial lass who works as an indigenous fabric weaver while Clara is the liberated city girl. Clara has gone wild after her mother runs off with another man. The two meet after years of separation when Clara returns to the barrio to visit her father, Roman. But their cultural difference further separates them as Lando, Isabel's boyfriend, enters into the picture. Lando, frustrated with Isabel's conservatism and idealism, turns his attention to Clara, which irked Isabel. Isabel, in turn, seduces Clara's father.
Boyet Palacios is a teenage boy whose family used to be middle class. Reversal of fortune happens after the father gets sick and becomes a vegetable confined to his bed.
The everyday struggles of people trying to bridge two cultures, as well as their attempt to find happiness in their new homeland. Tere (Cherrie Pie Picache), mid-forties and single, hosts a dinner for a friend visiting from Manila, Lorna. Invited are their New York City-based friends and former college classmates -- Mike (Christopher De Leon), a newspaper editor in his forties, Gerry (Ricky Davao), an advertising copywriter and closeted gay, and Marissa (Dina Bonnevie).
The story revolves around lovers Yna Macaspac and Angelo Buenavista. Unbeknownst to them, their love story started 20 years earlier between Amor de Jesús and Eduardo Buenavista. Unfortunately, Amor and Eduardo's love will be destroyed because of greed, ambition, and lies. Amor returns to the Philippines as Amor Powers and vows revenge on the Buenavista family which will hurt her biological daughter, Yna, in the process. Meanwhile, Madam Claudia, Angelo's mother, will do anything to destroy Yna and Angelo's relationship and make Yna's life a nightmare.
Based on the life story of director general Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson as the spotlight is put on the general as he handles controversial cases.
Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of Jose Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of his views against the Roman Catholic Church during the Spanish regime in the Philippines which he expressed primarily through his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The investigation was done mainly by "interviewing" key individuals in the life of Rizal such as his mother Teodora Alonso, his siblings Paciano, Trinidad, and Narcisa, his love interest and supposed wife Josephine Bracken, and the Jesuit priest who supposedly witnessed Rizal's retraction, Fr. Balaguer. Eventually, the two filmmakers would end up "interviewing" Rizal himself to get to the bottom of the issue.
Twelve-year-old Lily lives with her father, who has been suspended from the police force, and her stepmother. Her parents sell Lily's aging dog to Mr. Teban for dog meat. Lily convinces Mr. Teban to return her dog, and the she begins a friendship with the dog meat seller, much to the disgust of her friends and family. Mr. Teban becomes her surrogate father, and supports Lily against her abusive father and ineffectual stepmother.
Via, the only daughter of Don Fernando, was raised as his darling princess. On her eighteenth birthday, she found out that her father has promised her hand in marriage to her childhood friend, Michael, and before the birthday party was over, she got kidnapped. She was rescued by a good Samaritan named Gabriel, whom she fell in love with. As the story unfolds, Via ended up having to decide between the two men in her life, while learning more about her mother Magda and fighting off her evil aunt Selina.
Though widowed ex-cop Homer is a kindly father to his ten-year old son Rex, he is considered to be something of a bully in the poor Manila neighborhood that he lives. After mistaking a child retrieving a snarled kite for a burglar, Homer kills the boy and then hurriedly tries to cover up his error. Unbeknownst to his dad, Rex witnessed the event, too. As the two separately wrestle with their consciences, the neighbors find out and chaos soon ensues.
Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
A Filipino police story about Mariano Mison one the head of bureau who investigated the Vizconde massacre.
On their way home, Bong and Anna discover Kokey, an extraterrestrial whose space ship explodes upon landing on earth. Without the knowledge of their parents, the children keep Kokey at home. The three soon become the best of friends with Kokey turning out to be a big help to the family and their business, attracting customers using his extraterrestrial powers. But Kokey becomes homesick, pointing to the sky in silent tears, missing his parents. He tries to contact them but with no success. Will he ever be reunited to his family? How long can the children keep Kokey a secret?
Doc Aga is a veterinarian who rents a detached house in the compound of Babsy. Living with him are Godo, his humbling assistant and Camille, his niece. babsy is very much against the relationship of Doc Aga with his daugther Alex. Doc Aga and Alex come across Manny in the airport, a rich man who is trying to bring a dog in through the customs. Parallel events happen, which leads the group to discover that gems are being smuggled in the country through dogs.
Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.
A man who vows to fight for justice (Lito Lapid) and a hard-hitting TV reporter (Maricel Soriano) are forced to work together to escape the people who are after them.
The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of sexual violence and takes her attacker to court.
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
Muling Umawit ang Puso? is a 1995 Filipino film and an official entry to the 1995 Metro Manila Film Festival. This is the story of a popular singer-actress (Aunor) who went into seclusion after the traumatic experience of watching her pregnant sister die in the wake of a stampede of her fans. Nearly twenty years later she took in a young girl who wanted to be a star and tried to mold her into a copy of what she was before. With her she also picked up the pieces of the life she placed on hold and now was wishing to resume not as the star she was but as an involved caring and loving person.
The 1967 story of young rising actress Maggie De La Riva's abduction and rape, and the trial against her 4 abductors.
Rosa, Candy, and Lisa are Interpol officers trained to stage an offensive war against international drug smugglers. However, Rosa is forced against her will to carry out this killing assignment by the ambitious Chan, who had saved her life. This forces Rosa to hunt down the enemies before she becomes the hunted herself. Merciless combat action and high-flying kickboxing from Oshima prove that this "Guardian Angel" can be devilishly fearless!
In the distant year of 2000,two (count them) alien dudes from Mars "arouse panic" on the futuristic streets of Manila. Meanwhile a team of futuristic cops (they got headsets) try to bust Drago the drogbaron (a cameo by Melvin Wong). And on the other end of the town a comical gay geezer infected with AIDS try to commit suicide. Somehow these three subplots merge and the laughs begin.
Eight cops are organized into an anti-vice squad. They risk their lives and test their brotherhood in every mission they accomplish.
The abduction and rape of the eldest daughter Agnes shattered the once happy Paredes household by the rich and spoiled Romano Barredo. They vowed to get justice for their daughter but changed their plan when Romano offered marriage after it was discovered that Agnes was pregnant. As expected life with Romano was hell and Agnes only managed to keep her sanity for the sake of her baby and peace within her family .But even that was soon to end thanks to Romano's evil schemes. Agnes has a deaf mute sister which Romano was very interested with.
A film about changing partners and how the ensuing events affect the people involved. Cynthia Villanueva is an idealistic wife whose life revolves around making a happy home for her family where Rafael, her husband, plays the major role. This illusion is shattered when her husband becomes attracted to a flirtatious woman leading to an eventual erosion of her long-held values and her descent to adultery.
Aning is a maid in the Cuevas household. She is raped by an unknown assailant and comes home to the province pregnant. Her older sister Dinya serves the Cuevas household to search for the culprit. She catches young master Bobby but at the cost of her own vitrue. She blackmails the matriarch into making Bobby marry Aning. Meanwhile, Dinya gets pregnant herself and her family condemns her. Only the eldest Cuevas son Lar knows that it it Bobby who is the baby's father.
Wanting a better life for his baby, a driver switches his son for his employers’ newborn girl, forever entwining the futures of both families and enacting a series of violent consequences.
An intense rivalry has always existed between Gladys and her older sister Maureen whom her parents had adopted before she was born. The father Gilbert believed the girls should be treated as equals but Clara the mother thought otherwise. As a result Gladys grew up a scheming selfish brat who wanted everything for her particularly those belonging to Sharon. Eventually this would include getting the man Maureen learned to love.
Made pregnant by Ric, Estella was forced to marry his brain-damaged younger brother played by Val to save herself from the shame of having an illegitimate child. But what was intended as a marriage of convenience became a fulfilling relationship that eventually opened the eyes and hearts of everybody into the beautiful soul hidden inside the young man nobody wanted.
Robertito falls in love with Helen. Gabriel is jealous of his brother being the favorite son of their mother so he makes Helen fall in love to him. Robertito is heartbroken. Aurora asks Julie, who is in love with Robertito, to bring comfort and love to Robertito. When Robertito learns about the arrangement, he speed off, meet an accident and dies. Aurora refuses to accept that his favorite son has died so she made a great pact with Lucio to bring Robertito back to life.
Dina was the daughter of Dindo and his former maid Nida. Aware of this fact the girl constantly dreamt that one day she would be recognized by her father and would enjoy all the comforts of his moneyed lifestyle. The day finally came when she moved into the mansion amidst many objections from her irate mother. It was a life to which she found difficulty in adjusting but being young and beautiful she was easily accepted by her new friends. The problem was she was left pregnant by her former boyfriend from the slums. Turned away by her paternal grandmother from her new home she was left to fend for herself since her mother also refused to take her back.
Emong Sanchez is the defender of the people through peaceful means. He remains a quite man until he is pushed to violence.
Yolly, a flower vendor and her brother Efren, who works as a driver and hired hit man for ruthless money laundering lady Connie, live a hardscrabble and bleak existence in the underbelly of the tourist/fashion district of Manila. Escaping from a violent past from the provinces, the siblings world collide with Connie's gang when Yolly witnesses a rape and murder perpetrated by Connie's son and Efren decides to double cross Connie for her money.
A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.
