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 Photojournalist and filmmaker Barbara Pyle meets Cecile
Guidote-Alvarez, producer of a soap opera called Interweaving Lives. The series is broadcast throughout the Philippines, both on TV and radio --  synthesizing entertainment and education. It uses its characters as role models to tackle controversial issues, including family planning, birth
spacing and the long-held preference for sons. A local priest even plays himself on the show. He believes “This kind of thing is stronger than the pulpit, stronger than the school and stronger than the home.”
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Studies show soap operas with a social message, like Interweaving Lives, are actually changing behavior... in some cases influencing people to have
fewer children.
Guidote says, “When you have an informed citizenry, they themselves will act. I honestly have faith in our people that if they are given the choice and they are
given all the data, they will make the enlightened choice.”
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Pyle goes on the set for the filming of a compelling episode.
It dramatizes the power of individual choice by telling the story of two sisters who choose very different paths in life. 
One sister gets married at a young age and has many children, while the other sister goes to college and becomes a television reporter and anchor. Discover how their decisions have a lasting impact on both of their
lives. 
