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Lahar: Paraisong Abo (1997)

Name: Lahar: Paraisong Abo
Director: Mel Chionglo
Genre: Drama
Released: 1997-03-12
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Tonton Gutierrez, Dawn Zulueta, Jaclyn Jose, Tom Taus, Sharmaine Suarez

IMDb 5.51h 32mDrama

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Plot Summary

In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.