PLOT:
Oscar Ramirez, a rice farmer from Banaue, Ifugao Province, relocates to Metro Manila with his family in hopes of obtaining a higher quality of life after his rice crops are no longer profitable. While searching for a job, Oscar is offered a low-cost room to rent. However, it is revealed to be a scam as the next day his family is evicted by the police from the apartment building for squatting. The family moves into a vacant shanty house in the slums of Tondo, which is rife with criminal activity, while Oscar secures a job as a security officer for Manila Armored Couriers after the other guards discover his military background.
On Oscar's first day and night at work with his partner, Ong, the two exchange stories; Ong lost his previous partner during a failed robbery six months prior, and Oscar once worked in a silk factory with Alfred Santos, who was forced into armed robbery on a passenger airline, after losing his father and his family's silk factory to a rival company, to which he felt responsible for failing to stand up with his colleague, who ultimately perished after jumping off the plane.
Concerned about Oscar residing in Tondo, Ong offers Oscar a spare apartment unit in Makati for his family to live in. Meanwhile, Mai lands a job as a bar hostess at a nightclub in Makati. While undergoing the mandatory physical checkup, she is revealed to be pregnant. When she fails to make her drink quota and her pregnancy becomes more evident, her boss proposes to have nine-year-old Angel work for special clients.
During a routine job, after delivering their handouts to a rapper who happens to be a drug dealer, the duo have a tense discussion about corruption. When Ong pulls over ostensibly for a toilet break, Oscar suddenly sees a black Honda Civic, which had been stalking them on the first day, pullover with a group of men heading toward Ong's direction. Concerned, he exits the armored van and follows the gang on foot to save Ong, only to discover that they are in cahoots with Ong.
Ong reveals to Oscar that he took one of the security boxes with him after the failed robbery, and he is plotting with the gang to have the box opened by staging a robbery and having himself "debriefed" in the company's processing center while Oscar makes an imprint of the key in another room, to which he would use to unlock the box himself. He also blackmails Oscar into participating, threatening to frame him as the man who hid the security box in the apartment under their own name. The plan goes wrong as Ong realizes that the man in front of him is not part of the gang but the man who escaped when his former partner was killed; the man promptly kills Ong and Oscar is then given the grievous task of "postman", having to deliver Ong's personal effects and severance pay to his wife, Dora.
Upon learning that Ong's wife is aware of the security box, Oscar races back home and finds it under the floor. He and Mai face the dilemma of what to do with the box as she tells him it was a mistake for them to move to the city. One night, after a delivery job, Oscar sneaks into the processing center and takes an imprint of the key while stealing another one; he is quickly caught on the security camera and is shot and killed. Misled by the different keys Oscar stole, the company rushes armed men to the address of the drug dealer client while JJ, Oscar's new partner, becomes the "postman" to deliver Oscar's personal effects to Mai. She notices a locket that Oscar had stolen from a shop earlier that morning; upon opening it, she discovers a clay imprint of the key to the security box. After getting the key duplicated, she leaves the city with her children by bus, with a rucksack full of money that sits between her feet.
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