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             "Gamu-gamo" focuses on two lower middle class families in Pampanga --- the de la Cruzes and the Santoses. Cora de la Cruz (Nora Aunor) is a nurse whose one ambition in life is to live in America. Now that her papers are ready, she plans to get a green card after her one-year stay at an American hospital, then change her status to immigrant and finally petition for her family to live with her in America's affluent society. Her mother (Gloria Sevilla) and young brother (Eddie Villamayor) begin to dream of apples and greenbucks, but the fly in their colonial mentality is Ingkong (Paquito Salcedo), who insists that immigrating to America is betrayal of one's country.
             Bonifacio Santos, Cora's fiancé, has already filed an application with the U.S. Navy so he can join Cora in the States. His mother (Perla Bautista) and their helper (Lily Miraflor) save up for his expenses.
             Because of their personal ambitions, both families, with the exception of Ingkong, choose to ignore the brutal murder of Filipino fishermen and scavengers by American soldiers who use the former as targets, and the gross injustice of the American right of "extraterritoriality," which allows these servicemen to go scot-free out of the country. The families succeed in turning their heads the other way, until tragedy strikes their own homes.
             Mrs. Santos who works at the base Commissary, is subjected to indignities by a Filipino femal
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