Gatas Sa Dibdib Ng Kaaway

The lieutenant did not speak. He simply held out the infant.

On the third night, Lieutenant Ramos did something that would later be called a war crime by some, and an act of grace by others. He took his crying son and walked to Lumen’s barong-barong . Gatas Sa dibdib ng kaaway

But the logic did not account for the newborns. The lieutenant did not speak

She reached out her gnarled hand and touched his face. Her fingers traced his jaw, his nose, his lips. He took his crying son and walked to Lumen’s barong-barong

“ Gatas sa dibdib ng kaaway, ” she whispers, turning the phrase over like a smooth stone. “Milk from the enemy’s breast. It is not a betrayal. It is the only truce that God allows.”

Set during the height of the Japanese occupation, the story follows Pilar, a young mother whose husband, Diego, is arrested on suspicion of being a guerrilla warrior. Pilar successfully pleads for her husband's life with the local Japanese garrison commander, Captain Hiroshi.

The story follows (played by Mylene Dizon), a young woman living in a rural Philippine town. Her husband, Diego (Jomari Yllana), is a guerrilla fighter captured and tortured by Japanese forces. To save her husband’s life, Pilar strikes a desperate bargain with the Japanese garrison commander, Captain/General Hiroshi (Kenji Motoki).