Set in 1993, the Reyes regime faces its own demise as revolutionary forces encircle Manila putting an end to his corrupt and autocratic rule. Amid the turmoil, fate reuinites two former childhood friends from Santa Rosa: Janine Reyes, the wife of the dictator Alejandro Reyes and Shirley Madlangsakit, an assassin serving the New Peoples Army – both were torn apart by a massacre that turned them into blood-thirsty aswangs. Their reunion sparks an unfamiliar longing neither of them understands.
