In a poor district of Manila, the local social services have entrusted Thelma with fostering abandoned children until they are officially adopted. Today, Thelma’s foster child, John John, is to be handed over to his American adoptive parents.
As the day advances, each moment with the little boy becomes increasingly precious.
Mendoza’s camera films close up to bodies, traces the incessant journeys through the streets of the Philippine capital, and captures the harshest form of social reality, revealing the inequalities and interdependencies of the social classes, so close geographically and yet so distant in everyday life.
