Starring Dante Rivero, Cedrick Juan, and Enchong Dee, it features and follows the lives of the Gomburza, three native Filipino Roman Catholic priests executed during the latter years of the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines.

In 1869, Burgos is a teacher at the University of Santo Tomas and develops a close relationship with his students, Felipe Buencamino and Paciano Mercado.

They rejoice at the arrival of the liberal Governor-General, Carlos Maria de la Torre, and Felipe and Paciano form a student association.

He also lifts tax exemptions for native soldiers at Fort San Felipe, prompting a failed mutiny the following year by Sergeant Fernando La Madrid, who had been paid to launch the rebellion by a group of radicalized Filipino elites through their intermediary, Francisco Zaldua.

A catatonic Zamora is lifted to the scaffold, followed by a nonchalant Gomez, while Burgos, after accepting an apology from his executioner, protests his innocence as he is killed.

In an epilogue, an adult Pepe, also known as Jose Rizal, is shown dedicating his second novel, El Filibusterismo, to the three priests, and is executed in 1896 at the same place where they died, while a former servant of Fr.

[4] Director Diokno, however, added that they have to utilize some creative liberties to fill in the gaps, such as the portrayal of Francisco Zaldua who was killed alongside the Gomburza whose role in history is still debated.