Adela (Denise Esteban) was the sweet, loving wife of Atty. Marvin Alejandro (Adrian Alandy). She was suffering from post-partum depression and was under medication. However, in secret, she harbored a split persona -- promiscuous party girl Lena. It was by a toss of an old coin that decided who will take over her body. This was a ritual the "sisters" did since their sad childhood (Lhian Gimeno), living with an abusive father (Manu Respall).
One day, one of Lena's obsessed boytoys, Ramil (Ali Asistio), went to her house disguised as a delivery boy, hoping for a quickie. She was in her Adela mode at first, but in her panic, the Lena mode took over and ended the tryst in violence. Afterwards, Lena wanted to declare her freedom from their arrangement and run off with her boyfriend Jacob (Felix Roco). But this time, Adela fought back to regain control.
Writer Luigi Perez conjured up an insipid theory on how Adela had the Lena persona in her, a story that started in the womb of their mother. Lena started to assert her presence when Adela was in her early teens, and even came up with that preposterous coin toss thing to decide. It was a wonder of time management how Lena can do all her shenanigans when Adela had a husband, infant daughter and her mother (Raquel Montesa) living in the house with her.
Director GB Sampedro chose a house with several mirrors so that Adela and Lena could have their "conversations." Even in the flashback scenes, their girls first talked with each other via shards of broken glass. However, there can sometimes be confusion on who was talking to who, Adela or Lena, not sure whether this was because of Geoffrey William's unimaginative editing or Garcia's indistinct portrayal of the two.
This is another Vivamax film that followed its usual sex and violence formula. Once again, there is a mysterious woman who killed men after they have sex, this time dubbed as the "Carino Brutal" serial killer. Once again, the lead character had a split personality disorder, although her psychiatrist (Mickey Ferriols) did not exactly diagnose her as such. It was yet another variation of the overused "Ang Babaeng Nawawala sa Sarili" trope. 1/10.
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