The film focus on the lives of three young children serving time for theft in the Youth Ward of an atrocious Manila prison: 13-year-old Tony, and 11-year-olds Diosel and Bunso. Watching seedy criminals live in such conditions is disturbing enough, let alone children. The film only hints at acts of violence and rape, but the children are clearly in constant danger. Their Manila prison houses inmates of all ages, youngsters and boys included, who live in terribly crowded conditions, with virtually no separation between children and adults. As many as 150 residents are  rammed into rooms designed for 10 inmates. Wardens are nowhere to be seen, and even basic sanitary care is not afforded: they all wait for the rain to wash themselves. Towards the end of the film, their camera leaves the prison walls and ventures out to Manilas slums, to the homes of the children’s parents. The shocking encounter with their violent parents helps illustrate how these children are, after  ll, better protected and receive more empathy in the atrocious prison than at home.