A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy's rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end, especially when he has to juggle the idea of puppy love versus the idea of familial love. Edward, Thop Nazareno's sophomore coming of age feature, is a testament to a teenager finding self-actualization in the reality of a Philippine public hospital setting.—Thop Nazareno