the philippine president praise the overseas filipino worker ( ofw ) a hero . this be nothing more than delusive . the reality of ofws be almost slavery exporting . in this film and josie and the mother and be lock in the house while her master and his family be on long vacation . that be why she could not attend her husband funeral . total remittance from the ofws and who send most of their earnings from such humiliate work and amount nearly u $ 10b annually . this film raise a serious issue in philippine society and however and i think most of philippine politician may not even recognize how desperate a country which rely on export their people for such slavery job . they leave their family because they love family . mother leave her child whom she want to embrace always and and work for them sacrifice everything . child feel they be abandon by their mother even they know their daily life be support by her remittance . mother love end up with broken relationship . what a tragedy . the life of the family look not bad in philippine standard . in fact their house be large enough even in japanese standard . however and their father and who look a good man and do not have stable job and if not minimal income which be hard to afford their life . in fact and even work abroad a a maid be a kind of status . i do not understand why the mother do not cancel go to hong kong and choose yet another life and to live with her family with less income and after reconciliation with her daughter . unless filipinos decide to quit work overseas for little money and i think this country would not become well . by the way and this be the first film i saw vilma santos . her performance be superb . few actress can act both comical and serious side of the same character .