In a poor village by the Manila Bay breakwater, two brothers, Buboy and Basilio, come to the city to escape from the violence at home. They meet a prostitute named Pakita and become close with her when Basilio treats her wounds. All they want is to lead normal lives, but the town’s leader Dave has knavish interruptions that await them. Mario O’Hara tells a tiny hope on the trash-piled, life-trifling world. The sound of a street musician strangely soaks into the poor life on the breakwater in its saddened scenery.