- The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families' conflicts are radically pitted against each other as they live in the night streets rampant with drugs and prostitution. The outstanding narrative explicitly unravels the various characters and episodes. This landmark film of Ishmael Bernal depicts the darkness of city life so vividly that it was once prohibited to use the word 'Manila' on its title.—Pusan International Film Festival
- Bea (Rio Locsin) is a blind girl working as a massage in a massage parlor. Her closest friend is the lesbian Kano (Cherie Gil), who is both a drug pusher and addict. They are joined by Baby (Lorna Tolantino), a naïve probinsyana who was enticed to come her boyfriend. Baby falls in love with Pebrero (Osestes Ojeda), a taxi driver and father of two children. He makes Baby pregnant and eventually becomes a single mother. Ade (Alma Moreno), Pebrero's live-in partner, secretly works as a prostitute to support her good-for-nothing lover. She does not know that Pebroro is also the lover of Manay (Bernardo Bernardo), a gay couturier. But it is Alex (William Martinez), an adolescent drug addict/night club singer, who Manay's true love. Virgie (Charito Solis), Alex's mother is so worried about her son that she searches for him a gay bar, She comes across Manay, who knows of Virgie's past as a prostitute. Because he really loves Alex, Manay returns Alex to his mother the teenager becomes involved in narcotics and homosexuality. As Baby's condition becomes more apparent, she quits her job as a waitress and becomes a whore. The police chase after Kano and she is eventually captured. Ade suffers a meaningless and bloody death as the New Year's revelry begins. In the end, it is only Bea who manages to find a way out of her mess.—BGP
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