Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey

Tony de Guzman knows nothing but tough times living, as he does, in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home among 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 American pedophile. This is his story and the story of the world he lives in: a hopeless, closed-in decrepit world gone to hell.