Ma' Rosa

Ma' Rosa

I'm your mother, sister, father, brother.

2016110 min6.5 / 10

A gritty, intimate family drama about survival and sacrifice in poverty, where parental love and filial devotion collide with systemic corruption.

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

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