O R A T I O N

Life is full of wonder and mystery, light and darkness are symbols in rotation of the world. No matter what happens we need to get up, because in the middle of a burning heart there is a miracle that dries the flowing tears.

EPISODE 1 : THE BEGINNING

HELENA

"Let's put up with this until your dad gets better."

KARDING

"I told you to send me back to Manila so I can work again, but you don't want to. You didn't even think about your child."

HELENA

"Why? When you come back, will our life be different than now? Are we going back to our life before? I'm doing this to heal you!"

KARDING

"Why! Did I tell you to treat me? I will recover but your child will starve! "

[leaves the dining table]

HELENA

"Karding!"

V.O:

How did we end up like this? The formerly delicious food has been replaced by salt and water. The happy family has now been gone ...

[WAYBACK: YEAR 2018]

GOSSIP 1

"Hey! Mary, is it true that your father has a woman?"

MARY

"huh?"

GOSSIP 1

"so he doesn't come home?"

GOSSIP 2

"Oh no, Mary, maybe your father already has a mistress because the prophecy says that your father is with someone else?"

MARY

"And who's talkative mouth spread that?"

GOSSIP 1

"Didn't you know? It's Aling Delya! We bought alcohol in her store. She told us about that."

GOSSIP 2

"We'll go ahead, Mary."

GOSSIP 1

"We'll go another round at the nearby barrio."

MARY

"Aling Delya is so annoying. So irritating. I want to rip her mouth. Also these men, they know nothing but to drink alcohol."

MARY

"Mom, are you all right? By the way, I heard the gossip of our neighbors earlier and

they said that papa doesn't come home because he has another…"

HELENA

"Mary that's enough, don't hit the narrow-minded people!"

MARY

"But Mom, didn't you notice too? For a few months now, papa hasn't come home even if one of us gets sick or on occasion, he doesn't come home, he rarely calls, unlike before. Besides, Ma, are the predictions on the cards true?"

HELENA

"Mary, I know your dad. He won't be able to do that to us!"

MARY

"But why is he not there? Why isn't he calling? Has he forgotten us, Mom?"

HELENA

"No, he didn't forget us. I strongly feel that someone is controlling your dad's mind"

[ LUCITA AND EVIL WITCH POV ]

LUCITA

"Have you done what I asked you to do?"

WITCH

"Yes Lucita, and I'm sure the man you want will be yours."

LUCITA

"Well, the potion you gave me is so effective, Karding's eyes seem to drop every time he looks at me and he forgets about his family."

WITCH

"It will be more effective if you follow these prayers that I will teach you Lucita, so listen to what I have to say. When the day of the full moon comes, read in a whisper the words on that paper to the things you will give to Karding and by the time he, his wife and their child accept it, he will gradually lose sight of his family, and he will always think of you Lucita."

LUCITA

"I will remember all of that, this is the downpayment I will add that when Karding becomes mine. "

[ AFTER LUCITA WENT TO THE EVIL WITCH SHE STARTED TO READ THE PRAYER THAT THE EVIL WITCH GAVE HER ]

LUCITA

"Fel nabriti nub El Paso, suple mi spiritu sor Santi Eyad cur nume fel negra mahika

Adhikasol Nadia .."

LUCITA

"Karding!"

LUCITA

"Looks like you're leaving? Are you going home?"

KARDING

"Ahh..... yes because my daughter called me to send me home why?"

LUCITA

"Ahh..... nothing. By the way, Karding, here. These are the clothes that I haven't worn before, don't worry, it's a pity if they can't be used. That's for your wife and your child."

KARDING

"Oohh! Thank you very much Lucita. My child will be happy, I need to go now. I can't miss the bus."

LUCITA

"You're welcome"

[ LUCITA VOIVE OVER ]

LUCITA

"Make the most of the few days you can be with your daughter and wife because when you come back, I will make sure you are mine."

EPISODE 2: KARDING COMES HOME TO HIS FAMILY

MARY

"Ma! Mom! Ma!"

HELENA

"Oh! Why? Why are you screaming there?"

MARY

"Mama, look what papa brought. The dresses are beautiful. Is it fit to me? "

HELENA

'Where do those come from?"

KARDING

"Ahh.... that's from my friend Nestor. His daughter doesn't seem to wear it anymore so when he found out that I have a daughter he gave me all of that, isn't that nice?"

HELENA

"Ahh. It turns out that your friend gave us branded ones."

MARY

"Mom, it's beautiful, right? Does it fit to me? Here it is, Mama, oh, it looks good to you. Try to wear it, ma. Go ahead."

HELENA

"Yes, it is fine"

[ AFTER THE FAMILY RECEIVED THE ITEMS GIVEN BY LUCITA, WHAT THE WITCH SAID COME TRUE ]

HELENA

"How did you do this to us?"

KARDING

"I don't know, I don't know what's happening to me"

HELENA

"How come you don't know? It's your own"

KARDING

"Helena! how many times do I have to repeat that I don't really know what's going on with me as if someone else is contradicting my mind."

MARY

"Will you still accompany me to the ceremony?"

EPISODE 3: MARY'S DESTINY

[ Along with the loud sound of the car is Mary's deep thought until Ghio arrives it covers Mary's eyes a sign of her surprise arrival ]

MARY

"Ghio?"

GHIO

"Why do you look so sad? Are you okay?"

MARY

"Ahh ...nothing"

GHIO

"All right, what is that? And why do you seem to be losing weight? Are you eating well?"

MARY

"Ghio… because ... promise me first that you won't laugh when I tell you the story?"

GHIO

"All right, pinky swear!"

MARY

"Someone spelled papa"

GHIO

"Spell?"

MARY

"Papa suddenly changed; He is always hot-headed. He also learned to lie to mama and me and most of all every time I faced him it was like someone else was in front of me and not papa."

GHIO

"Potion, used to get the person of your dreams. it can be in the form of a love spell or Love potion"

MARY

"Huh?"

GHIO

'Love spells are the types of spell that need to be mentioned to command someone To love you, while love potions are things that are directly given to a person to drink, feed, or smell."

MARY

"How did you find out all of that?"

GHIO

"Ahh .. Ehh .. In the movies. Aren't there such things?"

MARY

"Ahh ..yes"

EPISODE 4: THE SECRET OF GIO

GHIO

"Mother! I wonder why you are still awake at this time."

TESSA

"How about you? why are you awake at this time?"

GHIO

"I can't sleep"

TESSA

"How can you sleep like that if you drink coffee in the middle of the night? What are you really thinking?"

GHIO

"Mary"

TESSA

"Did the two of you fight?"

GHIO

"No, she told me a story about his dad. A woman allegedly charmed her dad, so he suddenly changed."

TESSA

Spell? It can manipulate a person's mind

GHIO

"Mother, I want to help Mary"

TESSA

"I can't help. I don't want you to get involved in her problem."

GHIO

"But mother, isn't our goal to be able to heal people?"

TESSA

"That was before, Ghio, when your father was still alive. I don't want us to experience that again. "

[FLASHBACK]

KALOY

"Ghio, hurry up, no matter what happens, you protect your mother? You understand?"

GHIO

"But father, how about you?"

KALOY

"Don't worry about me. What's important is that you get away with your mother, hurry up! Tessa, take Ghio"

TESSA

"Come on, son!"

KALOY

"Please, Ghio! A true man doesn't cry!"

GHIO

"Fatherrrr..."

[ END OF FLASHBACK ]

Tessa

"The accident that caused your father's death , Ghio please, I don't want you to lose either, I can't handle that anymore."

EPISODE 5: SICKNESS OF THE TRUTH

[As Ghio walks, he sees Mary because the reason why he became nervous until Mary notices him and greets him happily]

MARY

"Ghio!"

MARY

"Why? Are you mad at me?"

GHIO

"Mary."

GHIO

"Mary, I know a lot about different types of spells"

MARY

"Huh? Are you kidding me?"

GHIO

"I'm serious, my mother and I are from a family of Babaylan."

MARY

"Liar! I trust you Ghio. How did you do this to me? Tell me, did you charmed me too?"

GHIO

"Mary, no!"

MARY

"Did you use spells as well?"

GHIO

"No!"

MARY

"Are you also with the people who tortured my dad? What did my dad do to you? Why are you doing this to us. You people are so bad!"

GHIO

"Yes! Yes, Mary. We are healers but we are not as bad as you think! We still have a conscience! My mother's goal is to help others not to torture! I chose to hide it from you because I knew you would say that, and now I have proven that I was not wrong."

MARY

"Do you think I can still believe you? To believe a liar is nonsense! We're done! "

GHIO

"Mary!"

EPISODE 6: RESENTMENT

[After Mary and Ghio talk, Mary weeps and cries until she goes crazy and blames god for her problem]

MARY

"Why? You! Are you happy now? Are you happy to see me like this? I thought you are equal! I thought you are not biased! But why? Why are you torturing me like this! What sin I have committed? Since childhood, I chose to be a good person. I have been good to others. I always pray to you! But why don't you seem to hear? You're even worse! I don't want this. I'm so tired. Just take me now. I don't want this anymore."

HELENA AND KARDING

"Mary! Its lunch time. Let's eat. Mary! My daughter!"

HELENA

"Mary what happened?"

MARY

"Ghio. He knows how to use oration like what papa experienced."

[on the other hand Lucita and the evil witch still don't stop]

LUCITA

"What now? Why is Karding still not coming to see me? I thought the potion you gave me was effective!"

WITCH

"Perhaps his love for his wife and their child was so deep that he was able to fight it"

LUCITA

"No! It can't be! Subing! Don't you know how to cast a spell too? I'm ordering you to spell his daughter! I heard that her passion is writing, I want you to destroy that dream of hers so that Karding will be forced to come with me and I will pay you no matter how much!"

WITCH

"That's easy"

[The evil sorcerer immediately takes the doll and the needles and whispers to them one by one with his sorcery, which gradually makes Mary suffer, much to Lucita's delight]

MARY

"Ouch! Its hurting!"

KARDING

"Why? What's happening?"

MARY

"I don't know ! Very painful Maaaa ..!"

HELENA

"What is happening to our daughter Karding?"

Karding

"Help! Help!"

[When Karding sees Ghio he comes over and begs to heal his poor daughter]

GHIO

"Mary!"

KARDING

"Ghio! I beg you. Please treat my daughter. She should not be affected by my mistake"

GHIO

It's not good. You're under a black magic. I'll try to fight whoever makes it

[Ghio holds Mary's hand he begins to recite the orations by whispering until it is sealed by the evil sorcerer]

WITCH

"Nosy!"

LUCITA

"Why? What's happening?"

WITCH

"Someone is treating Karding's daughter! But his opponent was wrong! "

[the evil sorcerer adds even more needles to the doll which Mary feels suffer]

MARY

"Ouch!!!"

GHIO

"I'm sorry Mary, the oration he's using on you is too powerful for me"

[while Mary is dealing with the pain suddenly there is hope, Ghio's mother Tessa suddenly comes to help and treat Mary]

GHIO

"Mother!"

TESSA

"What's happening to her? "

HELENA

"Tessa, please help my daughter."

TESSA

"It's weird and only one person I know has the ability to cast spells like this, but don't worry, I'll remove it."

[Tessa takes Mary's hand and begins to recite the whispered prayers, the pain Mary feels gradually disappearing and with its strength the evil witch who angered her because the witch could not bear it]

WITCH

"Cannot be! Nothing beats the power of my prayer! Except for Tessa!"

LUCITA

'Who is Tessa?"

WITCH

"She is the wife of my son, Kaloy. She has the ability to heal. She easily removed

what I put in Karding's daughter. Even the potion, she removed its effect. Lucita, get

ready because I know we have a visitor coming."

EPISODE 7: FINALE

[after Tessa removes the effect of the potion and the sorcery on Mary, Tessa decides to go directly to the place where the oration will be done, the sorcerer's fort]

MARY

"Thank you, Tessa"

TESSA

"Don't be complacent because I know they will do it again on you. I will go to that person who did this to you."

GHIO

"Mother! I will come, I will not let you go there alone."

TESSA

"No. It's too dangerous."

HELENA

"No, Tessa. We wont let you go there alone."

KARDING

"We will go with you."

[Until Mary's family decided to go to the place where the witch and Lucita were, and they arrived at the place where the witch and Lucita were]

WITCH

"Lucita, open the door. I know they are already here."

[Lucita immediately obeyed the witch's words and when she opened the door she was greeted by a hot slap from Helena which surprised Lucita]

LUCITA

"Karding? How?"

WITCH

"Blasphemous!"

TESSA

"Mother, We haven't seen each other in a long time"

WITCH

"Tessa! From the very beginning, you have always been the one to ruin all my plans!"

TESSA

"You've stopped! How many people do you want to hurt and affect like you did to Kaloy!"

WITCH

"Don't touch my son's name, it happened because of you Tessa!"

TESSA

"That's you, mother!"

[while arguing Ghio goes inside and when he sees a doll and needles he manages to use them on the witch and Lucita]

WITCH

"Ouchhh!"

LUCITA

"Ouchhh!"

MARY

"Ghio!"

TESSA

"Son!"

WITCH

"Naughty Boy!"

GHIO

"I want to punish you and make you feel the pain you are causing other people!"

MARY

"Ghio, don't do that. We are not Gods who can impose on them. When you do that, it seems like you are the same as them. Don't swallow your anger!"

LUCITA

"Karding, why? Why can't you leave your family? Why do you seem to be able to handle the potion I gave you?"

KARDING

"That is because my family is my strength, they are my treasure that no one can compare to. You can remove them from my mind but not from my heart."

LUCITA

"Forgive me, Karding, Helena and also you, Mary. All I want is to feel how to be loved."

HELENA

"You know Lucita, using potion is like bringing a buffalo or a horse to the river. Yes, you can bring a buffalo or a horse to the river, but you can't force them to drink. It's the same with love."

KARDING

"Yes, you charmed a person, and you can be with him but the question Lucita, can you used to be with him if you know in yourself that the love, he shows is only artificial?"

[because of this, the witch will become emotional and touch Ghio's face out of sheer pleasure but with a streak of remorse]

WITCH

"Ghio?"

TESSA

"Oh, he's your grandson, our son of Kaloy."

WITCH

"My Grandson, forgive me."

GHIO

"If there is anything left in your goodness, I want you to stop misusing your ability because many people are hurt and hurt, even your own child, my father."

WITCH

"Yes, grandson. Please forgive me."

[until everyone gets emotional]

[Showing each character's change until three years have passed]

V.O:

Life is a lot of trials depending on how you change the path of your destiny ,every time you stumble and forget, God is there to remind you that you are strong and capable. People who choose the wrong path have learned, tried, and changed. The person attracts someone to love her? Now, she feels real love that doesn't have to be pushed or asked. And I, happy with the family. It is true that pure love is so strong you can feel it sincerely and unexpectedly, even if it is removed from the mind but never from the heart, because true love? True Love…True Love…is unmixed, not just oration.