“Insiang” is Lino Brocke’s tale of one girl’s coming of age in the slums of Manila. The little character played by Hilda Koronel, is a young girl who lives in a small crowded shanty with her mother. Tonia (Mona Lisa). Her boyfriend Danny (Rex Cortez) treats her little better tha a sex object and her mother’s lover Dado (Ruel Vernal), overcome by desire for young Insiang, rapes her in her own home. She runs to her mother for sympathy but gets rejected instead. Disillusioned and worn out, Insiang decides on revenge.