Mia is a night-shift security guard whose special skills include firearm handling and hand-to-hand combat, specifically the discipline of arnis. At the male-dominated security agency she works in, Mia is seen as intimidating and headstrong.
But Mia does have a soft spot. Her whole world is held together by her son, Xavier. She is a single mother who chooses the night shift so that she can be with her son during the day. She literally works around the clock to make sure that her son never feels that there is something lacking in his life.
When her son's life is endangered by a national epidemic, how far is Mia willing to go to keep her son alive?
Dado is a police detective and Mia's father. He was also her arnis coach growing up. Dado was frequently assigned to different places and was rarely home during her childhood, and things took a turn for the worst when he didn't come home by the time her mother passed away. Because of this, Mia was forced to stop her schooling and learned to tough it out on her own. She eventually found out that Dado had another family. It's been almost a year since he tracked Mia down and finally met his grandson, Xavier. Dado purposely settled down somewhere in proximity to his daughter's community, but the two continue to share a strained relationship as Mia has yet to accept her father back into her life. But two months away from his retirement, Dado is assigned to a case that Mia has stakes in. Through this case, will Dado finally be able to reconcile with his daughter?
Known as the golden boy, Cedric is a young doctor and the current administrator of the hospital where Mia works. He graduated from premier schools and was hard-wired to succeed because of the pressure coming from his father. He is the son of the Claudio Jacinto, the secretary of the National Health Agency and owner of the C. Jacinto hospital and Jacinto pharmaceutical company. Their relationship as father and son has not been the same since his mother Lourdes' death. Now, all he wants is to do is make it up to his dad. He and his father Claudio are working towards creating a cure for the severe dengue 5 virus (a sickness that they too, developed.)
But when Cedric begins to develop feelings for Mia, he becomes guilty that he cannot help her especially when the disease he and his father created jeopardizes the life of her son, Xavier.
He is the incumbent Secretary of the National Health Agency and founder of the Jacinto Pharmaceutical Company. He also owns the hospital where Mia works and is currently run by his son, Cedric. He is a renowned philanthropist with a subdued Messianic complex.
Losing his beloved wife Lourdes was the most traumatic thing that happened to him and he places the blame on his son, Cedric. But with his son's help he is working towards the goal of creating and spreading a virus in the Philippines to come out as a hero in the eyes of the public.
She was only 15 years old when she was orphaned and spent her teenage years inside an orphanage. Delilah is intelligent and quite the hopeless romantic in her teens. Her dream was to become successful and marry the man she loves. She became one of the first scholars of Claudio Jacinto's pharmaceutical company. She idolized Claudio and went on her way to become a doctor. After graduating from medical school, Delilah became Claudio's right hand. By that time she was of age and working closely with the man she idolized, Delilah knew she wanted to be more than just his second-in-command. Even when she learned about Claudio's illegal dealings, she continued to stand by him and hide his secret.
Now Dr. Delilah runs the secret laboratory where the Jacintos developed the severe dengue 5 virus.
He is the intruder Mia catches inside the pharmaceutical lab. Jelo starts out as a shady fellow, turning up in the unlikeliest of places and snooping around in the hopes of finding out what happened to his brother who died while working for the people in C. Jacinto Pharmaceuticals.
Jelo has a strong feeling that the Jacintos had something to do with what happened to his brother. But he does not have the means to fight the whole corporation. He needed to find a way to take them down from the inside. He trails Mia in the hopes of finding an ally in her, but initially doubts her thinking she has ties to the Jacinto family.
Mia eventually trusts him, only to find out that Jelo has his own obscure agenda behind all of this.
An affectionate and inquisitive almost-7-year-old, Xavier is the twinkly-eyed darling of his mother and a joy to all the people who live in their small community. He brought up by his mother and godmother Charlotte. Though they live in modesty, he never felt that there was anything lacking because his simple home was filled with love.
At an early age, Xavier took an interest in research and technology. Although his mother encourages him to pursue medicine or law, he firmly wishes to become a scientist someday.
He loves his mother very much and dreams to give her a life where she no longer has to work.
But when he falls ill to the severe dengue 5 virus, will Xavier be able to realize his dream?
