Jose (Pempe) Padilla Jr. plays Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Joseph de Cordova is Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus (Leroy Salvador), Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.