Makaakar 2021
A story of a young man trapped in regrets and extreme melancholy after he discovered his current condition while working in a mining tunnel.
A story of a young man trapped in regrets and extreme melancholy after he discovered his current condition while working in a mining tunnel.
Compounded with poverty in a rural area, couple Bebeng and Dandoy are motivated to raise funds to support their nine-year old daughter, Inday, chosen to represent her school for a quiz bee in the city. Danday harvests their cultured crabs earlier than its due just to raise the needed amount.
A middling cemetery caretaker Pido (Rommel Mahinay) is a happy go lucky person and perceives life as it is, taking everything lightly and contented with what he had. Fate starts to get bristly when his wife dies and later stricken by illness because of being an alcoholic. With no one to help him, and his illness getting worst, the solitary Pido struggled every day to live his lonely life. As he grows weaker, and knowing it was only a matter of time before he dies, Pido decided to end his misery by burying himself alive.
An ordinary person is still haunted by his past experience due to his war trauma.