Haya Kang Balbal

It is like any other day in Artiaga Street when men eat dogs and get drunk and women have to succumb to their husbands’ aggressiveness. Mariana, pregnant with her second child has been planning for this day. She is fed-up. She wants to break loose. On the ground floor, her husband’s dog barks incessantly. Upstairs the baby cries constantly waiting to be fed. She has to fight. A woman, too, has rights. Confronting her drunken husband and the dog, she makes one last bid for freedom that might finally set her free.

The inaccessibility of a cure has been the major struggle of the residents of a remote barrio after a widespread Hansen's disease (leprosy) afflicted them. Defeated by poverty and fear, Sara and Paeng decided to move out to save their severely ill son, Toto.

Amid his early self-discovery age, his family encountered a tragedy, where Boyboy had already witnessed how unequal society treated their kind.

A hunter meets and rescues a wounded woman who is trying to escape from a group of people trying to kill her. As he escorts the woman to safety, dark and dangerous secrets slowly unfold.

This movie does not only give us intricate details about nuns lives - a life characterised by prayer and strict routine but rather let us see beyond the surface level. A different view of what lies beyond the convent walls, their tunics, and religious paths which leads us to another important entity - sin. This story challenges our faith about confession, repentance and soul redemption. With a catalyst leaving us with one big question: With all the people failing time and again to avoid sin, could there be any forgiveness?