As real events of the siege unfold, the film follows the fictional love story of Celso Resurrección (Jericho Rosales), a Spanish Mestizo soldier, and Feliza Reyes (Anne Curtis), a local maiden and daughter of a Katipunero, with their relationship caught in the middle of the Philippine Revolution. Celso, a half-Filipino, half-Spaniard, joins the Spanish Army hoping he is sent to Spain after the war so he can search for his soldier father who he hasn't seen since his father was sent back to their motherland. Celso meets Feliza while assigned to the Baler regiment and they fall in love.