THEY are dirt poor. His wife has stage 4 cancer. She stayed in the hospital for several days then the husband took her home-- there was nothing more the doctors could do to cure her illness. Meaning, she is going to wait for her last moments under the care of her unemployed husband. What is left of her monthly pension is barely enough for their needs. He cooked for her, bathed her, changed her clothes. She could not see anymore because of her diabetes. A nephew--the son of her sister- has been with them since he was born. He works as a utility man in one of the city's mall. Last Thursday, he died of a stroke. The nephew will have to take care of the wife he considers as her mother. Can he cope with his duties as care taker and worker at the same time? God will provide? He took away the husband.
They live in a city where the city mayor has an P80-M mansion, and where some of the residents, also poor, use the Padsan river as latrine and garbage dump.
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| Of course, the dead man will not be in a position to hire this carro to take his body to the camposanto. |
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