Bawod

On the eve of her schools annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo twelveyearold Thirdy is worried she will not be able to perform because she could not afford to rent a traditional costume and pay the required contribution Her ailing but affable grandfather Cesario acts as her sole guardian He works as a bamboo farmer but they could barely make ends meet In the midst of all these Thirdy starts having visions of a mysterious man She believes the apparition is that of her long dead father while everyone else dismisses her visions as nothing more than fantasies or illusions On the day of the Talent Show everything unravels as village problems and family secrets finally collide