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Details - http://www.taralets.com PAN DE SALAWAL (The Sweet Taste of Salted Bread and Undies) By ANNA FRANCESCA ESPIRITU An ill-stricken neighborhood living beside the Manila Railroad gets their dose of miracles from a wandering girl from the South, who violently hurts the sick as her magical way of healing them. Synopsis: As old and rusty as the Manila railroad, Sal, a lonely panadero suffering from chronic kidney stones, wants nothing but to die. As every woman he loved left him via the Manila train, he too wishes for it to take his life. Sharing his sick, grey life along the riles are his neighbors – a barber with severe pasma, a Carinosa folk-dancer paralyzed by stroke, and a macho meat vendor with tumor in his breast. They all battle for dear life, hoping a miracle comes along the riles. The heavens answer their prayers with Aguy – a 10 year old palaboy. Literally named Aguy (aray in Bisaya) after her mother’s distressed childbirth, she’s left an orphan and is off to live on her own. She wanders from South to North, in search of a home. Aguy possesses an extraordinary gift – the ability to heal. When she sees someone in pain, she hurts them – by slapping their faces or punching their chests or anything violent - and they get healed. With a series of miracles, Sal and his barangay begin to experience life again. After inviting Aguy to stay in his bakery and forming an endearing bond, Sal wishes not to die anymore,but to get healed so he can take care of Aguy like his own daughter. But as Aguy is able to heal Sal’s sick neighbors, for some reason, she cannot heal her Tatay Sal. While Sal is at the peak of his pain, urinating with blood, Aguy realizes the only way she can heal him. With her heart breaking, she bids him farewell and rides off the Manila train. Through this sacrifice, this ultimate pain, Sal finally gets healed. That night, the heavens cry with him, a minute-long rain of crystalline salt pours all over Manila. After experiencing one miracle after another, life along the rilesI is off to a new start. Sal re opens his bakery, the aroma of freshly baked pandesal spreading over saline Manila. Cinemalaya 14 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2018 From Aug 4-12, 2018 at the CCP theaters and select Ayala Malls Cinemas.