Rotonda

This story of revolution and transformation, aptly set around rotunda intersection or a ragged city, follows the path of a marked-one-thousand-peso bill as it transfers from one character to another, returning blood-tainted to its originator in the end.

The bill leads us to each of the five offbeat characters, all in desperate need of their soul's redemption: a disillusioned tabloid reporter planning to commit a suicide in a motel; a nightclub dancer-prostitute who vows to give her younger sister a better life; a fallen henchman resurfacing to score bigtime; a runaway teenage girl held captive as a sex slave by a cop; and a long suffering son bearing a sadomasochistic relationship with his brutish, half-paralyzed father.

Like a ticking time bomb, the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end with a tabloid front-pager triple-homicide where death seems to have come full-circle.