Awaiting Trespass

A three-day wake in Manila mourning the aged playboy Don Severino Gil is the setting for social satire and personal awakening.  Unusually, his coffin is closed. Why?

Among the powerful Gil family of doctors, lawyers, socialites, priests, businessmen as well as the rare student dissident speculation grows rife, but soon moves on to the topic of the Pope''s planned visit to the Philippines.  Religion...