Horacia has spent the last 30 years in a women's correctional facility. AWhen another inmate confesses to the original crime, Horacia is released. While searching for her missing son Junior, she discovers again her homeland – the Philippines of the late 90s, only to realize that its inhabitants are terrorized by corruption and rampant kidnappings. Her generous personality becomes tainted by feelings of revenge...

What shapes us as human beings?
The inspiration of the story is Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth but Waits. I've read the story a long,
long time ago. I only remember the premise now. I already forgot the story and the names
of the characters. I remember that what really struck me when I read it was that neither
of us really understands life. We don't really know. This is one of the most essential truths
of existence. Or, some of us can at least feel a continuum, that things that we do can be
consequential. And more often, we abide and succumb to life's randomness.

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