On the Philippine island of Cebu, two sisters leave work and never make it home. That same night, hundreds of miles away in Manila on a different island, Paco Larrañaga, 19, is at a party, surrounded by dozens of reliable witnesses. Paco is accused of the rapes and murders of the two sisters. Reflecting schisms of race, class, and political power at the core of the Philippines' tumultuous democracy, clashing families and institutions face off to convict or free Paco.