Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran wants the race completed by any means necessary.
A deadly weapon in the hand of a fiery woman only one man could tame it's fast-streaking fury.
Based on Francisco V. Coching's adventure comics novel, the film tells the story of Fernando (Cesar Ramirez), a handsome and dashing Spanish mestizo who goes back to the Philippines to exact revenge on his father whom he believed abandoned him and his mother Blanquita. There, he discovers the cruel and oppressive colonial government and joins the rebels in the fight against the oppressors as El Indio.
A solider joins the guerilla and is tasked to woe the daughter of a man who has ties with Japanese forces and and gather intel but he falls in love with her. They both get married but the woman and her father gets into an accident, so the man leaves for Manila and falls in love with doctor. Fate lead the doctor and the woman to meet.
Filmed with the exotic splendour of Mohammendan pageantry, filmed with the fire of a great romance, filmed with suspense that soars to breathless heights.
Barbaro follows the adventures and travails of Sabas, who takes to arms to avenge his father's wrongful death. To the common people, he is a protector. It is based on Francisco V. Coching's eponymous comics series.