A superstar singer and an advertising executive, married and miserable, agree to live as singles while staying wed on paper. Nora Aunor and Christopher de Leon, a real-life celebrity couple themselves separating during production, give the bickering a crackle. Every rehearsal-room number Aunor performs is both fan service and interior monologue: the spectacle that makes her desirable prevents her from being seen. Brocka smuggles this insight into screwball comedy. This is the only film where his political intelligence operates entirely through comic register.