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Barber's Tales is set in the rural town in the Philippines during the end of Marcos dictatorship, and tells the story of newly widowed Marilou (Eugene Domingo)
who inherits the town's only barbershop from her husband- a business
that has been passed down by generations of men in her husband's family.
With no other means of support, she musters the courage to run the
barbershop. But as to be expected, she fails to attract any customers.
But a touching act of kindness she extended to Rosa, a prostitute who
works in the town brothel, leads to an unexpected opportunity. Rosa, who
now considers Marilou a friend, urges her prostitute friends to
pressure their male clientele into patronizing Marilou's barbershop. The
men have no choice but to grudgingly oblige out of fear that Rosa will
expose their infidelity to their wives.
