What if love isn’t the end of the story, but the start of a harder conversation?
It starts like every great love story: eyes lock, sparks fly and the music swells. The future seems written in the stars. But First Comes Love: Nakabingwit lingers after the meet-cute, when conversations about race, class and difference enter the picture. For three Filipina–white couples, modern love means real romance, real love — and real-world problems. In the tender, inventive ways they learn to listen, repair and speak more honestly to one another, they find a truth that is deeply contemporary and enduringly romantic: that love can grow stronger when it meets reality.
First Comes Love: Nakabingwit, Joella Cabalu, provided by the National Film Board of Canada