Producer Tricia Aquino introduces the Philippines and its media landscape through interviews with veteran journalists Lourdes Fernandez and Rowena Paraan. Follow the story of the local press across several decades, from the Marcos dictatorship where many reporters were killed, imprisoned, tortured, or became victims of enforced disappearances, to the more recent Maguindanao massacre, where 32 journalists were killed alongside the political rivals of the most powerful family in the province.