Init / story and direction by Lino Brocka and screenplay Tony Perez.

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Osa (Charito Solis) is a sex-starved woman who has run away to a remote island with her daughter, Bayang (Rio Locsin). Now sixteen years old, she is the product of Osa's sad past in the city, Emil Santos (Phillip Salvador), a mysterious stranger drifts by accident into the island. He proceeds to satisfy the mother's long-felt need and initates the daughter into sex. Leroy Salvador plays Juan, the spurned childhood admirer of Osa who adamantly refuses to touch his wife, Idad (Laurice Guillen., because of her inability to sire him a child after fourteen years of marriage. Johnny Delgado plays the black fisherman who is always there when Idad needs him.