简介 This is the story of a young boy's initation i nto life. The setting is a small town in the Philippines. And although the story revolves around Filipinos, the events have a certain kind of universality in the sense that we are all too human: subject to the same blind prejudices, gripping emotions and baffling tribulations. Junior has made the accquaintance, and become a close friend of the town's simplewoman named Kuala, and a leper called Berto. The two outcasts of the town have become lovers and now stay in a hut in the cemetery. Kuala becomes pregnant and is ...