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Lahar: Paraisong Abo
First aired on Mar 12, 1997
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Genres: Drama

In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.

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Tonton Gutierrez |
Dawn Zulueta | Sheila
Jaclyn Jose | Sonia
Tom Taus |
Sharmaine Suarez |
Daria Ramirez |
Featured Crew
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Mel Chionglo | Director
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Ricardo Lee | Writer