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- SEVERAL OF LOCAL CINEMA'S RIOTOUSLY IRREVERENT COMEDIANS GATHER FOR A SHOW OF SOUND AN FURY.
- Fred Montilla, the unemployed father of four, wants to leave his slum shanty and return to his hometown. Celia Rodriguez, his wife, made bitter and cynical by years of hard living, wants to fight it out in the city. Alma Moreno, their eldest daughter who augments the family income by working as a housemaid, also wants to stay. The father's decision prevails and the displaced encounters some difficulty in adapting to their to their rustic surroundings. They have to get drinking water from a distant well, bathe and wash their clothes in the river, weave baskets and plant vegetables for subsistence. Dingo Fernando is a young physician who wants to be of help to the rural folk but is opposed by his girlfriend Laurice Gullen. An accident reinforces his desire to practice in a remote barrio, Fred Montilla's hometown. By film's end, each of the characters has come to terms with his own inner conflicts. The final scene shows Montilla succeeding in drawing water from his own well and his family rejoicing in its abundant flow, symbolic of better to come. The film's start establishes the disparity between the rich and the poor. A rich patient's is her insomnia resulting from weekly visits to a fortune-teller. The problem of Fred is where to get his family's next meal. Dindo's friends have their tables brimming with ornately ornamented foods. Fred's family is feasting on gruel. The viewer is brought so deeply into all these that after a few minutes, the film begins to take on a surprising immediacy.