John Sy

Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty, he returns home to Manila for Christmas. While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death.

A young neighbourhood underdog or a “patalo” who assembles an unlikely team of losers to join her in the ultimate battle for the streets: patintero.

A young woman is tormented by the burden of isolation, her emotions treading between reality and the realms of the mind. Troubled, she is desperate for any help, an escape. She uses her predicament to entrap her deliverers into their own demise.