A Filipina meets a man in hiding.
The movie chronicles the life of a young woman caught in the middle of an ugly war between her fiance and his father.
Sabel (played by Izza Ignacio) is used by her mother to pay for a longstanding debt they have from the proprietor of a fishery.
Kakai, an impoverished crosseyed young woman, finds herself taken in by a rich matriarch and foretold to be married to the matriarch's snobbish son by a mysterious hermit.