Timothy Castillo

Tony knows nothing but tough times, living in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home amongst denizens of the underworld: the crippled pimp, the lonely housewife, the neighborhood gay and his macho father, the prostitutes, the small-time politician, and the Yankee pedophile. This is his story and the story of the world he lives in: a hopeless, closed-in decrepit world gone to seed.

Four men with nothing to lose have the worst night of their lives.

To protect her three children from Philippino drug lords, a newly widowed mother becomes a police informant after her husband is mysteriously killed.

In Kuala Lumpur, an abused domestic worker tries to escape to Indonesia, while an idealistic cop insists on fighting corruption -- at a heavy price.