« Throughout this engrossing and sophisticated procedural with universal audience appeal, Raymund Ribay Gutierrez slowly dismantles his country’s imperfect justice system, where nightmarish bureaucracy gobbles up compassion and the urgent needs of the survivors take a backseat in a grueling Kafkaesque circus. »
Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and beats Joy brutally. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police post to finally get him sent to jail. Justice, Joy learns, takes time at best and is impossible to get at worst. Not without reason, she feels that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat.
Max Eigenmann, Kristoffer King, Pakingan Rene Durian, Jorden Suan, Dolly De Leon, Jalyn Perez, Lourdes Javelosa-Indunan, Vincent Aureus, Stephen Humiwa
