A
picturesque tale of Kulas, a country bumpkin, whose misadventures
symbolize the search for the elusive Filipino identity at a time when
Spain was being replaced by the United States as the colonizer after a
short-lived period of Philippine independence. A sprawling historical
epic, which details the country's struggles in establishing its cultural
identity dating from the Revolution against Spain until the
Philippine-American War, as seen through the eyes of a provincial young
man.
