Mark is a high school senior who makes a personal problem out of his parents break-up when his mother leaves home for another woman. The thought of being the butt of jokes for "having two fathers" horrifies him. All these worries and angst take the backseat when a new teacher comes to campus. Her name is Connie and she is an instant hit among the boys. It is love at first sight for Mark. However, Connie has an affair with Vincent, a married man.
A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
While trying to cozy up to the sexy and mysterious Mina, who recently moved into the boardinghouse above his shop, unlucky Xerox operator Lito is unwittingly placing his life in grave danger.
После смерти матери двенадцатилетний Максимо, бросив школу, наряжаясь в девичье платье, бродит по трущобам Манилы, участвуя вместе с подружками в инсценированных конкурсах красоты, посвящая остальное время заботе о своём отце и старших братьях, изображая из себя заботливую домохозяйку, в то время как те занимаются мелким криминальным бизнесом. Размеренное течение их жизни нарушает появление в округе молодого полицейского, завязавшего с Максимо тесные дружеские отношения, ставящие под угрозу спокойствие и благополучие его семьи.
