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The signs are ominous when country bumpkin Oscar moves his family from the rural Philippines to Manila, where the naive newcomers are soon broke slum-dwellers, struggling to feed their young kids and sliding into poverty. Against the odds, Oscar lands a job as a security guard, but he falls into bad company and soon finds himself out of his depth in an unpredictable scam. Pacy, engrossing, and with a stellar turn from the plucky schmuck protagonist, this is a vivid, emotionally engrossing, under-the-radar surprise.
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