Stuff Toy
Produced by: Maalaala Mo Kaya
Language: Filipino
Drama format
35 minutes

Maribel's father died when she was still very young. Her mother was forced to give Maribel away to relatives. She eventually ended up working as a child domestic worker in other households. She went through verbal abuses. One day, a man encouraged her to venture in higher-paying households Manila and she decided to go with him. During her trip aboard a passenger vessel, she overheard from her recruiter that the bag she was entrusted was actually full of illegal drugs. Maribel managed to escape as the ship docked but her companion, another young girl, was left behind. In this melodrama, the issue of child trafficking interweaves with the underlying problems of domestic work and drug trafficking and how many adults deceive the childhood of many children like Maribel.