Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest districts with her busy mother and entrepreneurial aunt. Years later, she is still the same girl enamoured with television, now also tending to her aunt’s stall selling pirated DVD movies. Elsewhere, there survives footages of a movie done before the war.
Andi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snakes for their venom. Her flagrant sensuality attracts the attention of hired hand Dak, and when Tim becomes bitterly obsessed with his faltering job, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair, which leads the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events.
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
