Acclaimed director Lino Brocka and screenwriter Mario O’Hara tell a powerful story about small town injustice. Junior (Christopher de Leon) is a privileged young man living in a small, devoutly Catholic provincial town. His father is a womanizer, his mother a materialistic shrew. His friends spend their days tormenting the village idiot, Kuala (Lolita Rodriguez), and the upstanding woman of the town shun local leper Berto (Mario O’Hara) as they go about their charitable work. Increasingly alienated and disgusted by the hypocrisy of the townsfolk, Jumior finds himself identifying more and more with Berto and Kuala. He tries to make things right for these marginalized characters but his attempt are met with futility at every turn and inevitably, tragedy strikes.