A young, beautiful woman runs into an ugly beast named Johnny Tinoso and immediately judges him for his looks. However, she discovers that he transforms into a handsome man after midnight.
Princess has a void within her heart where her parents should be. Her father works abroad while her mother has long since passed away. When her aunt Marie cannot truly give her the love she longs for, she begins seeking solace in food.
Young Miguel leaves the Philippines for the U.S, where he hopes to marry a nice girl. The person who returns home a few years later, however, is Michelle -- the former Miguel altered by surgery and cosmetics. Her/his father is stunned by this development, and other hostile reactions erupt.
A confused and angry farm boy brought up under the strict and seemingly unforgiving guidance of an exacting and domineering father gains initiation to both romance and heroism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896.