Opposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.

Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.

A mother and her four children are alone in a cruel world. Is it the mother's fault if her loved ones go astray after all her sacrifices and concern for their welfare?

It proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards. A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field, harvesting it during the months of October to December.

A country lass moves to the city and falls in love with her benefactor

Ethan, a missionary priest in the Phillipines, falls in love and falls from grace. He sinks into a world of alcohol, loneliness and self-doubt, but dies a hero fighting for the life of the woman he loved.