George Madrid arrives in the tropical island paradise of Santa Lucia, eager to work with Sacadas or improvished farm workers, But the young priest's world in turned upside down when government security forces plunder a village and massacre his parishioners. Defecting to join Marxist insgurgents, Father Madrid rises to the top echelons of the Communist Party and plots to overthrow the dictatorship. Is he genuinly liberating the poor and Oppressed? Or simply acting like a recreated Che Guevara? Topping the government's target list, Father Madrid's life takes another cricial turn when the charismatic Senator Benigno Aquino, returning from exile in the United States, is assassinated at the Manila International Airport, igniting a populist revolution. This novel is based on a true story.