What happens when your punch-drunk dreams meet the canvas of reality?
An aspiring boxer takes his fighting chances and discovers the grim reality of the sport.
Acting
Ruby Ruiz's weary eyes carry whole histories.
Cinematography
Sweat-drenched close-ups that never flinch.
Director
Christian Paolo Lat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filipino boxing cinema often explores how the sport becomes escape from structural poverty, following the tradition of 'Pacquiao cinema' without the triumph.
Lat deliberately cast non-actors from actual Manila boxing gyms; Ramsay's exhaustion in the final bout is real—he'd been training for months and collapsed after the take.
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