7 is a 2019 Filipino drama film directed by Nuel Crisostomo Naval and starring Aga Muhlach, Xia Vigor and Bela Padilla.

[2] The film revolves around Lito (Aga Muhlach), a mentally challenged man who was wrongfully accused of killing the daughter of Secretary Yulo (Tirso Cruz III) as well as his attempt to maintain relations with his own daughter Yesha (Xia Vigor) through the help of his fellow inmates.

One day, he gets into a physical altercation with Defense Secretary Emmanuel Yulo, who has just purchased the last Sailor Moon backpack for his daughter Jenny, a gift Lito was saving up to buy for Yesha.

Soon after, Jenny dies in a freak accident, in which she slips because of the wet pavement and suffers a fatal blow in the head while taking Lito to a store that sells the same backpack.

Police quickly take advantage of his disability and force him to confess to the crimes while ignoring exonerating evidence.

The other men in the cell led by gang leader Soliman “Boss Sol” with Mambo, Choy, Bong, and Tatang Celso initially don't take kindly to Lito after reading in his file that he murdered and molested a child.

Secretary Yulo, however, threatens to harm Yesha if Lito doesn't confess his "crime" during his trial.

Before the date, Boss Sol and fellow inmates work on a hot air balloon and force Lito and Yesha to board to try and let them escape, but ultimately failed because of a rope connected to the hot air balloon caught in a barbed wire, later on in the film Lito was executed.

[3] The prison which served as the main setting of the Philippine adaptation was filmed in a sound stage in Cainta, Rizal.

[4] Among the challenge of posed by the adaptation process is how a faithful depiction of Philippine prisons would affect the film's plot.