 A society torn by an intense war and conflict. The film begins and ends with a young peasant son doing a flag dance. A young boy dots golden fields with white flags to stop birds from preying on the season s harvest of palay grains. Another child creates noise by agitating tin cans filled with small stones. An unexpected transformation takes place. A vivid landscape of metaphors on contemporary Philippine politics. A poetic take on the peasant struggle and the protracted people s war in Philippine countrysides. One of the film s highlights was a minute-long scene showing a series of bloodied hands, a horrifying display of how human lives are desecrated in an unimaginable manner.