They do everything from shoplifting and stealing just to feed the family ‘till fate does its way of getting back when Ertha (Moira Lang), a wolf in sheep’s clothing, takes and kidnaps their son. Jane and Aries Ordinaryo (Ronwaldo Martin and Hasmine Kilip) are a teenage couple who have recently given birth to their firstborn, Baby Arjan. In Eduardo Roy Jr.’s Pamilya Ordinaryo, we see people at the very bottom of the food chain, doing what they can to survive. Yet, even so, life in the Philippines is a game of survival. That is of course unless you are privileged enough to pay someone to do those tasks for you.
The everyday routine of a Filipino family is founded on endurance and survival: surviving the traffic during rush hours, and surviving to make good on their respective jobs and enduring the heat, the exhaustion, and the every struggle to make ends meet.
