director:
Butch Perez
playwright:
Amado Lacuesta
/
Butch Perez
actor:
Raymart Santiago
/
Albert Martinez
/
Joel Torre
/
Rachel Alejandro
/
Ruby Moreno
…
genre:
Drama
/
Action
region:
United States
length: 2h 10m
release date: 1996-08-14
IMDb: tt0318466
Overview
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.