Forced by his father to become the next folk healer of their town, a boy secretly despises his conventional boring life not until he falls in love with a Tikbalang (A Philippine mythical humanoid creature that has a head and hooves of a horse).
Light piercing through the sky is the common symbolism of hope for most of us, but not for Erika and her grandmother. The idea of the sun getting swallowed by darkness signals the arrival of the ultimate necessity of life—water.
