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A peasant couple sell all their worldly possessions so that the husband can take advantage of an overseas job offer. One month after he was supposed to have flown abroad, he turns out to have been victimized by illegal recruitment. He is deported back to the country for trumped-up robbery charges and returns home. The tragedy is bound to bring his marriage and family life to vast ruin.

A migrant couple in New York is wrongfully accused of molesting their children. Their fight for justice exposes the prejudices and discrimination suffered by Filipinos overseas and the shattering of the myth of American dream harbored by Filipino expatriates in search of greener pastures. The true-to-life account charts in tragic detail the ordeal of a family under siege in an alien country to convey an unequivocal rebuke of the ironically ominous aspects of life in the nation dubbed as the home of the free, the land of milk and honey and the greatest in the world.