Lola Igna 2019

Lola Igna, Angie Ferro, a centenarian farmer living alone in a hut on her ricefield, becomes the subject of media attention in her sleepy provincial town when the Mayor announces that she has a shot at becoming the world’s oldest living grandmother. Asked what she wants in life, she shocks everyone with a blunt answer: > “I want to die.”

Igna’s granddaughter Nida takes advantage of her grandmother’s newfound fame by selling themed merchandise, while Igna tries to maintain her routine and fend off droves of journalists and tourists at her home.

One day, she empties her urinal at a boy who turns out to be Tim, Yves Flores, her great-grandson from Meryll Soriano as Ana, who left years ago after an argument with Nida. Tim explains that he left his mother to escape domestic troubles and now aims to reconnect with Lola Igna while making a vlog. Tim quickly learns the ropes of farm work and helps Igna gather wood, which Igna says will be used for building her coffin. Igna reveals that she began preparing for her death after seeing her late husband Carias one night, thinking that he is coming to take her into the afterlife. Tim is perplexed but continues to help, and he also teaches Igna how to use his technical equipment as she opens up to visitors and well-wishers.

Some time later, a pregnant Ana arrives to be with her son and grandmother and reconciles with Nida. Ana goes into labor and gives birth by the ricefield, only to die upon seeing Carias. Igna uses her coffin for Ana’s funeral, a somber rite that underscores her vigil over life and death in the rural setting.

As the media attention on Igna fades and another person wins the title of oldest living grandmother, life in town returns to its ordinary rhythm. Tim stays on with Igna at the farm, helping to raise her sister and continuing to document the quiet resilience of a woman who outlived many and chose to confront her end with honesty, humor, and practical resolve.