She moves to meet him somewhere else. In her desire to be with the young man she sees in a dream, a girl tries to finish collecting debt from villagers on her final day in the town of Guimbal, Panay Island. But as she goes around town, she collects not just furniture and belongings but also dreams, myths, history, and memory spent with the villagers. She leaves. In the neighboring island of Negros, she is hired to play the child of an old maid. In crossing over, she is seen as many things. History writers say she is a revolutionary. Myth says she is an elemental. Other villagers say she is a kept maiden, hidden from the sun, being ripened to tell a love story for everyone to hear.