The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain.

A plane crashes on a small village infested by the Huk rebels in the 1950s and three men, Ponsoy (Tony Santos), Mesiong (Johnny Delgado) and Jamin (Ronnie Lazaro went to the crash site and found a suit case full of money. They got the suit case but don't report it to the authorities. However when the authorities approach the town mayor to help them find the suit case and a witness saw the three men who took possession of it, the mayor devises a plan to steal the money for himself.—Anonymous