Mumbaki

Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father an Ifugao chieftain who was killed during a tribal dispute While there he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao Though the lure of a career in America remains strong he is unable to resist the urge to help his village which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war