Naam Phoo grew up in a divorced family. He never felt love and affection from his parents. When his mother had a new husband, Nam Phoo started to isolate himself from the family. His friends introduced him to use drugs to escape from sadness. Naam Phoo became excessively addicted to drugs. When Kew, Nam Phoo's best friend, knew about this. She decided to tell his mother to take him to the rehabilitation center at Tum Kra Bok. Once Nam Phoo stopped using drugs and came back home, he felt nobody in his family really care about him. He got upset and took heroin until overdose to death.  

Thep returns home and starts his career as an acting teacher and a writer in a small town. In his classroom, Nuan is a young talented actress. The relationship between a teacher and a student transforms into a lover. 

Celia, once a darling of Philippine opera, and her brother the ex-congressman Gaspar, are members of a once illustrious Filipino family now fallen on hard times. Celia had sold her share of the ancestral home to her brother to prop up a failed marriage. She now lives under his patronage in exchange for taking care of her ailing brother, singing to him the opera arias he loves. When Gaspar slips into a coma, Celia’s impending homelessness is all but sealed. Celia dresses up her grandson Antony in Sto. Niño (the Holy Child) garb, insisting that this will invoke a miracle that will awaken Gaspar. The boy becomes a silent witness to the unraveling of family secrets, plots, and intrigues as harsh present day realities in the form of the Celia and Gaspar’s children – Mombic, Merced and Raquel – push the inevitable: the bitter sale of the ancestral mansion. Celia wages her last battle to regain the glory of the past by hosting a splendid musical soiree, her final eulogy to her own moribund class.