An intrepid gumshoe tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case and find the girl before the city erupts into violence? Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters flit and feed along neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged dystopian graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. In a city now governed by the mysterious Societies, tensions between the human and nonhuman inhabitants are about to hit a breaking point. This fast-paced graphic thriller features: A newly freed Manila, walled off since World War II, where the Tyranny's regime has fallen and the open city is governed by the mysterious Societies. A one-armed Taga-Sagot--a gatherer of information, an answerer of questions, a fount of knowledge--is charged with finding the missing "daughter" of a small-town mayor lost amidst the temptations of the open city, now a den of pleasure districts and corruption. The cast of nonhuman and fantasy characters includes one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals.
