When a budding seed longs to sprout, Olivia, a woman on the eve of her 30s, tries her hardest to keep her plant from withering, with the hopes that it will bloom one day as she languishes in the wistful plight of the corporate world.
Set in 2022 in an urban city, Totoy is the grandchild of a cobbler in a place where no one has shoes; his curiosity begins when his grandfather tells him about the lore of a fairy who continuously robs shoes and controls the economic stability of the barangay. Totoy is driven to know the answers. Through the story of his grandfather, Totoy notices that his grandfather was rewarded to become a cobbler with the expectation of improving the standard of living, only to find out that the place is under the curse of the fairy and realize only Totoy could break the curse.
A year after her grandmother’s death, Isla, a graduating literature student, comes back to Mindoro and reckons with the void her grandmother left as she finds and listens to her “nanay’s” recorded poems and songs when she cleans up her nanay’s untouched bedroom, in line with a Mindoreno tradition.
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John, a quiet and mysterious photographer, is driving along the vibrant and crowded streets of Manila when he meets Lily, a shrewd sex worker with a disarming beauty.
