Rosario Synopsis
The film tells the saga of Rosario, a young and liberated Filipina in the 1920s who has just arrived from New York, and is spending her vacation in their hacienda.
There, she meets and falls in love with Vicente, an older man who manages the tobacco
plantation owned by Rosario’s family. When Rosario’s father finds out
about his daughter’s scandalous affair, he sends Rosario to a convent.
She escapes, and elopes with Vicente to Manila where they raise a
family. But Rosario’s life of married bliss slowly crumbles when Vicente
becomes ill with tuberculosis, and she is lured to committing adultery.
Temptation and scandal still hound Rosario as she continues to defy the
moral restrictions of her time.
Based on a true story and set in one of the most colorful periods in
Philippine history, ROSARIO is destined to be a modern masterpiece in
Philippine filmmaking. It is a monumental yet intimate portraitof a
woman’s emancipation and the sometimes painful consequencesof following
one’s desires.
