A ghost story where the only haunting is motherhood itself.
70-year-old Virginia shares the old ancestral house with Delia, her ever-loyal maid. Delia is marrying her long-time boyfriend, Rene, and tearfully confides to Virginia that she wants to go home to her parents in the province to start a new family life with him. Haunted by a past that Virginia tries to conquer her only son Sonny Boy who disappeared years ago, what follows shows a portrait of a woman and a mother trying to juggle the sad realities of life in a cycle of life and death.
Acting
Elizabeth Oropesa's entire existence in this role—subtle, crushing, perfect.
Direction
Alix lets silence do the screaming.
Cinematography
That ancestral house becomes a character—decaying, watching, remembering.
Director
Adolfo Alix Jr.
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