His first prospect was Nato, an upright policeman living in poverty whose son Boyet suffers an accident and needed a big amount of money for a life-saving operation.
Dimawari's second prospect was Sabel, a beautiful and innocent poor girl who wants to make it big as a fashion celebrity model to get her parents out of poverty.
However, the Eskribong Anghel (Scribed Angel) and his army came to Dimawari's rescue and puts Tartaro back to his rightful place in Hell.
Isah Red of the Manila Standard gave My Guardian Debil a mixed review, calling it a decent film.
He praised Jimmy Santos for giving his "character just the right amount of comic touches to make him pathetically funny" and his departure from his carabao English acts.