Tondo Stories

The year is 1350 its late night you there are Ming Soldiers running in the cold desert as they start to destroy a path and build barricades, what they are keeping out? The Plague. This is an alternate history where The Ming dynasty decides to block the silk road due to the Plague ravaging Europe thus the Europeans never acquire hand guns and never colonized the world. This event made Ming traders to go East to the countries in the Pacific, Tondo(Philippines, Usegi(Japan), Joseon Dynasty(Korea), Majahapit(Indonesia), Great Viet(Vietnam), Khmar(Cambodia) and Malacca(Malaysia).

As a young girl who grew up in the slums of Tondo, Manila, Philippines to a woman of wealth and power, Isabelle is hurled back to her gloomy past when her long lost father got in contact with her again, now with a surprise that will change her life forever. Through this surprise, Isabelle finally comes to terms with who she is as a person-someone worthy of feeling whole, capable of feeling decent emotions, and capable of appreciating not just her own pain but the pain of all those people, before her, who have been hurt just like her.

Maxine Montecarlos finds herself disoriented and confused; unable to remember the events of the previous night that led to her current situation. As she slowly gain her memories back, she realizes a disturbing discovery, leading us to ask, JUST WHAT HAPPENED TO HER ?

A girl of Chinese descent struggles through the death of her favorite house help, through her family relationships, tradition, through life and growing up.