A stripper and taxi driver are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director. The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and lovers.
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Rita Gomez
Vic Vargas
Eddie Garcia
Rosemarie Gil
Ronaldo Valdez
Elvira Manahan
Zenaida Amador
Subas Herrero
Ernie Zarate
Joonee Gamboa
When the individual lifestyles of the embodiments of urban and nature meet... They clash, and create a new parasitic relationship.
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