Shadows of La Paz

<p>It is 4:30 on a Saturday morning at Barrio Santa Inez in the town of La Paz Zambales. Gabriel Alvarez is roused from sleep by a farmer who has come to report that four thieves are making off with the coffin of a recently buried rich Chinese businessman. Compelled to pursue the perpetrators but with no police in sight Alvarez enlists the help of a gun-toting cousin.</p><p>While the two men scour the cemetery for clues they stumble upon a body crammed in a sack. After it is identified Philippine Constabulary investigators descend on the province focusing on Gabriel's relations and his past dalliance with a mysterious woman. Desperate and on the run he gets help from a powerful politician with a great debt of gratitude to pay...but one who has much to lose.</p> <p>As the story unfolds and secrets come to light Barrio Captain Alvarez realizes that the past has come to revisit him and that he has become a pawn in one man's grand ambition. His only hope of salvation lies in a faith healer whose unusual methods border the bizarre.</p><p>From the beaches of Zambales to the Hundred Islands of Lingayen; from the seedy strips of Subic to the slopes of a dormant volcano Alvarez races for his life his pursuers never far behind.</p><p>Meanwhile in their midst lives a woman trapped in a nightmare whose dark tortured mind has a story to tell.</p><p>Love heroism and diseased souls La Paz has it all.</p>