“DESPERADA is about mentally ill patients rescued from the streets and brought to a shelter owned by a lesbian psychology graduate and medicine undergraduate MIRIAM (Sue Prado) whose advocacy has been to take care of homeless persons with mental disorder. Miriam rescues BRENDA (Robb Guinto), a young woman who has gone through a gamut of abuses that tentatively broke her. Inside the shelter, Brenda meets various characters who’ve also had traumatic experiences. Despite the abnormal environment, Miriam does her best to make everyone feel they belong to a family. In the shelter, Brenda meets her ex-boyfriend LUCIO (Yasser Marta), the love of her life, a former drug addict whose whole family has been killed as collateral damage on account of his being the main target of the police as a drug user. This tragic chapter has driven him to guilt and psychosis. The shelter could have rekindled their past flame but to no avail. Instead, Brenda finds true love in HESUS (Mhack Morales), another psycho who grew up in an orphanage where he was a boy-toy of a PRIEST. While both are healing in the shelter, Brenda and Hesus find pure love blossoming between them. Love, after all, is still possible even in a most unexpected place, amid seemingly insurmountable challenges. “””
