Quiapo, feast of the Black Nazarene, the largest procession in the Philippines: barefoot thousands surge toward a wooden Christ who does not answer. Cut to the same rapt face—a girl watching a bit-part stuntman. The idol has changed; the worship has not. She leaves home to serve him: cooking, laundering, hauling and boiling his bath water. Nora Aunor—the shortest, darkest superstar in Philippine cinema, the first idol with the audience’s own face—produced the film herself, to play the servant. Her famous eyes never stop thinking. Idolatry is a national industry: actors, politicians, saints.