In a nation scarred by a brutal drug war, a grieving couple is offered a controversial new procedure by the government to erase the memory of their deceased child. As they face the choice between forgetting and healing, they must confront the ethical cost of erasing their pain—and the lingering question of what it means to remember.
Spotlight is a film following the mind and reality of Graciela, a self-conscious 20 year-old teenager. As she strangely moves back and forth from the confines of her home to the claustrophobic public jeepney, she gets overwhelmed by her perceived paradox—of being invisible to one and too visible to others. Driven by anxiety, she starts moving to what she believes is the ideal rhythm of the world, forging herself in a manner that she believes to be acceptable.
A gay son with a lot of clothes to wash is helped by his mother in sorting his laundry. While doing so, he looks back on his childhood days when he cleverly envisioned the laundry as a big ocean where the dirty clothes were cute little fishes. He also used to imagine the washing board as an enormous mountain and the basin as a paradise where the land meets the sea. But in this little world that he created, a sea witch trapped him in a bubble where he felt undesirable, unacceptable, and unbecoming.