Set in the rural Philippines, a mother tells her daughter, Nina, a story about her bygone ambition to rebuild their life in the Metro Manila. While Nina’s visiting aunt urges them to migrate into the city with her, they are compelled to rethink their choices and realise the true measure of a better life.

Agos: the Manila Dream is a fantastical and poetic depiction of the provincial Filipinos’ prevailing ambitions of prosperity, as seen through Nina’s journey and imagination.