Pinoy Sunday 2009

Dado Tagalo, Bayani Agbayani, and Manuel dela Cruz, Epy Quizon, are two Overseas Filipino workers employed with Giant Bicycles in Taiwan. While Dado misses his wife and daughter back home, he has been dating a Personal Care Assistant named Anna, Meryll Soriano. Meanwhile, Manuel has hopelessly fallen for a club hostess named Cecilia. One Sunday after Mass, Manuel tries to ask Cecilia out on a date when he spots her at a hair salon. He does her a favor by buying mango ice drinks for Cecilia and her companions, only for them to flake out on him. Dado foolishly decides to break up with Anna on her birthday, which he had forgotten all along.

As the two friends share a quiet lunch and swap stories of heartbreak, they notice a Taiwanese couple arguing over a red couch that has just been delivered to their doorstep. When the couple and the delivery crew abandon the couch, Manuel sees a sign from God and decides that he and Dado should bring it back to their dormitory. After a friend overcharges them to deliver it on his truck and the local bus cannot accommodate it, Dado and Manuel have no choice but to carry the couch on foot. Midway through their trek, they cross a street and a drunk motorcyclist collides with the couch. The rider argues heatedly with the duo until all three men end up at a police station when the motorcyclist accidentally strikes a policewoman with his helmet. At the precinct, Manuel grows anxious about deportation as an officer questions whether they stole the couch, but the policewoman files a report and lets them go.

With their legs tired but their mission intact, the duo rest on the couch for a spell, only to be approached by an Ilonggo woman in a taxicab who offers them a free truck to deliver the couch the next day. Manuel politely declines, concerned that leaving the couch overnight would complicate their task, much to Dado’s frustration. To ease the tension, Manuel buys Dado a snack, but when he returns, he finds that Dado has given the couch away to a junk collector. Undeterred, the two chase after the junk dealer and hop aboard his three-wheeler pickup. The ride ends at a recycling plant, where a quarrel erupts between them and where Dado even teases leaving Manuel behind. The tension eases when Manuel wrests a shopping cart away from a group of kids and they strap the couch to it.

Later, the two argue about turning the couch into a side business at their dormitory, only to be interrupted by a news reporter who stops to interview them after they inadvertently save a young man from leaping off an apartment building during their journey. They quickly flee the scene, and the reporter later broadcasts a segment asking whether they are thieves or heroes.

As night falls, the friends ditch the shopping cart and attempt to cross a river via a shortcut, but their disagreement nearly costs them their balance and safety. Manuel admits they might not make it before curfew, while Dado urges him to stay calm. Dado reaches out to Anna to seek forgiveness, and the two continue onward as the dormitory gate seals for the night. The two end up spending the rest of the evening singing on the couch as it floats along the river. When dawn arrives, they arrange a bus ride back home and ultimately abandon the couch on the riverbank.

Some time later, Manuel and Dado return to the Philippines where they unwind by the beach and travel home by tricycle. They chat about what to eat for dinner and even toy with the idea of starting a furniture business, a shared dream that lingers as they reflect on the unusual journey that began with a discarded couch and a bond that endured despite every detour.