Engaged nightclub singer Rose Indrasari (Nena Rosier) is brutally gang raped and then abandoned by her fiance, prompting her to attempt suicide. The man who saves her life then forces her to become a sex slave and she contracts an unpleasant v.d. called Vietnam Rose. Having finally had enough by that point, she decides to get revenge on the men who ruined her life.
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it.
This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction of show.
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
