Osa (Charito Solis) is a sex-starved woman who has run away to a remote island with her daughter Bayang (Rio Locsin). Now 16 years old, she is the product of Osa's sad past in the city. Emil Santos (Phillip Salvador), a mysterious stranger drifts by accident into the island. He proceeds to satisfy the mother's long-felt need and initiates the daughter into sex. Leroy Salvador plays Juan, Osa's spurned childhood admirer who adamantly refuses to touch his wife, Idad (Laurice Guillen), because of her inability to sire him a child after 14 years of marriage. Johnny Delgado plays the Black fisherman who is always there when Idad needs him.