Ala Verde Ala Pobre is the story of Manuel and Jessica, a young couple surviving against the odds in the ‘Riles’. The Riles is a hustling community of less fortunate people who live along the railroad tracks in makeshift dwellings where anything can happen and often does. With dreams of having a child, they desperately strive for a better way of life.

Ala Verde Ala Pobre is the story of Manuel and Jessica, a young couple surviving against the odds in the ‘Riles’. The Riles is a hustling community of less fortunate people who live along the railroad tracks in makeshift dwellings where anything can happen and often does. With dreams of having a child, they desperately strive for a better way of life.

In the rural northern town of Damortis, Miguel sets up a thriving faith-healing practice with his wife Anna. Their new apprentice Lando, however, overtakes the faith healer in popularity – even winning over Anna – and basks in the material riches it provides him. But Anna, realizing the spiritual corruption of her husband and lover, takes her freedom into her own hands.

In the rural northern town of Damortis, Miguel sets up a thriving faith-healing practice with his wife Anna. Their new apprentice Lando, however, overtakes the faith healer in popularity – even winning over Anna – and basks in the material riches it provides him. But Anna, realizing the spiritual corruption of her husband and lover, takes her freedom into her own hands.

Typhoon Yolanda devastates the city of Tacloban, Palo, and other north-eastern towns of Leyte. Alice, a social worker in Tacloban survives the storm promising her close friend Rosa, who perishes in the flood, to find her kin: Miguelito, left to fend for himself.