Joanna Vasquez Arong

A twelve year old girl from a prominent family, together with her streetwise friend Tonito, struggle to maintain a regular life by going to school amidst the rubble in Tent City whilst cutting classes to accumulate as much relief goods as they can for their families' survival.

Sol follows the lives of two sisters living in a small village. Tensions have been rising ever since drugs infiltrated their lives along with the relief efforts that came after the storm. The elders lament that their patron saint, San Antonio, was able to protect them from the storm surge yet can’t protect their children from the drugs coming in after the storm. Sol struggles to cope with her family situation. She feels stuck in her little village where the neighbors all gossip about their brother in jail for drugs and her older sister who cannot seem to move on after the death of their father during the storm.

A contemplative film on the effects a typhoon leaves on a seaside city in the Philippines. Myths are woven in to try to understand how people cope with the devastation and trauma. A girl’s voice divulges bits and pieces of her own memory of her grandmother and mother to tie in the experiences she felt visiting this ravaged port city.