Hope Matriano

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.

The story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly, Gigi, Rosita, Sandra, and Vio and what drives them to do the inexplicable.

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.