With the deadly fraternity wars among Filipino youth as a starting point, "Kaptiran" becomes a cinematic essay about the filmmaker's hometown of Manila. Blurring fact and film together, it is a bleak, disjointed portrait of a disjointed city; a meditation on its social cancer.
A graphic encounter with the world of sex trafficking and child prostitution in the United States and how America continues to contribute to the proliferation of slavery inside and out side its boarders.
A film on the inner urge to let go what you already have and the creative search of what follows after.
The women drink, have fun, talk, and laugh. And they quarrel, vomit and drive each other into physical and mental states where the distance to violence, terror, disease and death becomes wafer-thin.
