Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
Kaipo Dudoit
Pili
Jayron Munoz
Edmar
Dan Francis Rodriguez
Zack
Bryant de Venecia
Cedric
Kaleo Pinto
Kona
AʻAlona Monteilh
Haku
Malelega Lauano
Sina
Justine Albert
Ms. Thomas
Charieze Cacayorin
Maymay
Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
There’s a bit of rivalry between the indigenous young men of Hawai’i and those of Philipino heritage whom they think cavalier about the natural resources of their pristine islands. That hostility extends into school where “Pili” (Kaipo Dudoit) and his older lads like to pick on “Edmar” (Jayson Munoz) and his pals. Things look set to come to an head when a teacher decides to pair these two on a project to select and prepare their favourite food for presentation to their fellow students. Of course, this doesn’t seem like the best of ideas as the two men see eye to eye on virtually nothing, but gradually they both realise that there is something akin to the magnetic drawing them together and after an altercation with some beach-slobs, old enmities begin to evaporate and new opportunities present themselves. To be honest, though this is quite a good looking film, there isn’t very much by way of innovation about it. The plot is fairly predictable and there’s nothing especially memorable about the dialogue. What is quite remarkable is the presentation of proud and ancient cultures unencumbered by many of the Victorian values surrounding sexuality and attraction, and with the two engaging efforts from Munoz and Dudoit is maybe the most memorable element of a film that showcases the fact that love is about people and not about proscription. It’s an effortless watch that allows us an observation of an emerging love amidst a civilisation that cares about it’s environment and it’s happiness in equal measure.
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