Adrian Castañares Jr.

A nine-year-old boy, Kido, goes to meet his older sister at a protest camp fighting against the land grabbing of farmlands in Nueva Ecija—bringing her a frog and a squash as his simple gifts.

Still grieving her best friend’s death, Clarissa is unexpectedly invited to a Noche Buena with the late friend’s family. Throughout the night, the truth behind her friend’s death begins to unravel.

A bar dancer desperately striving to build a better life for her child finds her world shattered one day when she discovers the child has gone missing.

Joaquin recalls his basketball life with a lurking feeling that he has to abandon his passion, his mind as cloudy as the afternoon, he must decide if he will go out to play or not.

Struggling with his class presentation about his father, an elementary student named Philip asks his infamous politician father, Freddy, to help him with preparations. After a very enthusiastic performance, He receives negative feedback that causes him to burst out with threats to his classmates. Freddy comforts him and assures Philip that everything will be alright as long as they both come to class the next day to “apologize”.