The Philippines, 1902. The land is raw, wounded, occupied. Smoke clings to the trees. Blood soaks the soil. The war is over – but the violence lingers. Widows fill the villages. Mothers vanish into silence. Among them walks Sisa, barefoot and broken, dismissed as mad by those who fear what they don't understand. But madness is only the surface.

Emman, a visual artist, becomes drawn to his neighbor, Althea — a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. As he and his fiancée, Liz, try to help Althea, Emman’s growing desire for her pulls him into a nightmare of betrayal and darkness.

Caught in a creative struggle, a painter confronts her traumatic past and unfulfilled dreams when commissioned to paint seascape art, leading her on a journey of self-discovery through the depths of the sea and uncharted waters of her own.

When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.

During a promotional appearance of a movie cast on a noontime show, the hosts, producers and writers implement damage control with a swift change in segment when the upcoming teen star of the film unintentionally reveals crucial information regarding the love team, endangering the reputation of the film.

In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.