According to Diaz, the film tells the story of 'the conflicted Lt. Hermes Papauran, arguably the Philippines’ greatest investigator, as he pursues a cold case down the banks and the waters of Taal'
Director Lav Diaz says that he created the 'film-novel' out of his first-ever television series 'Servando Magdamag,' which is based on a short story of the same title written by National Artist Ricky Lee
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One might say Lav Diaz’s latest film, Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon (When the Waves are Gone), was constructed around a photograph taken during the drug war, the Pieta-like cradling of a user/pusher victim by his lover somewhere in the Pasay Rotonda area in the dead of night.