After a mysterious falling out with his father five years ago, Angelo, the favorite son, has not shown his face to the family. Arlene, being the eldest and the least favorite, takes upon herself the demanding task of taking care of their very sick father even while she tends to her own husband and children. Anne, the youngest, is single and pregnant with no one to turn to except her older sister.
After years of imprisonment in the Middle East for a crime he did not commit, Lino finally returns to his small town. He hopes to relive his lost dreams and bring back everything that was taken away from him. With his red suitcase filled with misery and uncertainty, he reunites with his past. Revisiting what he left behind, he discovers that life went on without him. As he tries to fill the emptiness, he realizes that he is now the void.
A year after her grandmother’s death, Isla, a graduating literature student, comes back to Mindoro and reckons with the void her grandmother left as she finds and listens to her “nanay’s” recorded poems and songs when she cleans up her nanay’s untouched bedroom, in line with a Mindoreno tradition.
