Yesterday Children
Kahapon, May Dalawang Bata
It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Philippines
- Director: Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Cast: Ara Mina, Tonton Gutierrez, Pen Medina, Ray Ventura, Jennifer Sevilla, Eva Darren, Carlo Aquino, Patricia Ann Roque, Ronnie Lazaro, Crispin Pineda, Gigi Locsin, Zad Centina, Carol Buenaventura, Ricky Pascua, Manny Mendoza, Jaime Yaneza, Beto Passion, Romeo Fidelson Jr., Manny Rodriguez,
