Laya is a young professional photographer who has drifted away from her family. Her father has fallen ill, but she hasn’t once come to visit him at the hospital. Her mother, who left their family when Laya was a child, returns to urge Laya to make amends with her father, but Laya’s pain goes deeper than her mother suspects. Laya is sent to the provinces to document a ritual of a disappearing indigenous tribe, and there, she inadvertently comes face to face with her own demons as she observes the relationships of the last remaining members of this dying culture.

A floating dog, a talking fish from the test lab, and fourteen-year-old Jani smack-dab in the middle. In a dystopian world riddled with nuclear reactors and governed by military curfews, the teenager struggles through a life marked by surreal encounters and bleak realities. With plenty of color, shrillness, and noise, Stephen Lopez stages this fantastic story spawned by the political regime of the Philippines.