As the Philippines prepares for independence from American rule, suave, smooth-talking politician Manuel Quezon ascends to presidential office through persuasion and propaganda. With irreverence and biting wit, Quezon dissects a myth, revealing the timeless thirst for power animating a hallowed historical figure. Philippines, 1935. Manuel “Casey” Quezon has been elected president on the back of a shrewd campaign, a pliant press and a series of propaganda films. Disillusioned by this Machiavellian figure that he once supported, newspaperman Joven watches an alternate version of the propaganda movies that Nadia, his filmmaker daughter, has secretly assembled, offering a different image of the beloved president.