Romulo Araojo

The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working abroad. She finds her family in tatters, her parents estranged and living apart and her brother Jepoy living the life of drugs. But she basks in the welcome of her mother and youngest brother Noel and the devotion of her boyfriend, who proposes marriage. Her happiness is short-lived. She is diagnosed with SARS and contaminates Noel. They cause a national scare, are quarantined in Manila and are shunned by their own townspeople and the municipal government. Even her boyfriend leaves her. The hero becomes a heel. "Just a month after my return, my views on life and the people around me have irrevocably changed," she says at the start of the movie.

Inspector Randy Tuazon led the raid of the Satanic cult responsible for killing virgin women. They thought they had already destroyed the cult when they killed its leader, Remo Torres. Several years later, panic strikes the quiet town when a priest is mysteriously killed. When Randy's search for the lead suspect results in vain, Paula, a psychic, volunteers to help him. Together they must uncover the mystery behind the killings and bring back the peace of the town.

A man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.

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