Sun, Jun 13, 1976
Jaypee (Romnick Sarmenta) is a young lad raised by his two old maid materialistic stage aunts (Bella Flores & Ely Roque). Dreaming of having a cash cow of their own, they push Jaypee to become a child star. They drag him to every audition available, until the child is hired and become extremely popular child star. The sisters become more and more greedy as the income gets bigger. They wallow in luxury (since there were no laws protecting the welfare of child actors in the Philippines in the 1970s), while at the same time forgetting the welfare of the child. Overworked and neglected, Jaypee collapses one day, finally succumbing to Pneumonia. His death becomes a wake up call to the Philippine lawmakers who decide to finally protect the welfare of child actors. And the sisters' wheel of fortune is summed up as: From rags to riches, then riches to rags.