![]() Gerry Marcial and Leni de los Angeles are lovers. Meanwhile, Salvador and Caridad De los Angeles are husband and wife. ![]() Nyora Tentay has a son, Victor, who is married to Gracia. She lives with her maid, Dominga Canlas (Ingga), whom she often mistreats, making her starve, and not giving her the right salary at the right time. She is a money lender who charges high interest rates. Vicenta Marcial, also known as Nyora Tentay (the term senyora is the Filipino word for the Spanish term seƱora, meaning " Mrs." nyora is the condensed term for senyora), is the matriarch of the wealthy Marcial family, and is labelled the "queen of Canal de la Reina". Upon seeing the place, Junior and Leni, Caridad's children, are immediately repulsed by their surroundings and hesitantly leave the car they arrived in along with their father, enlisting the help of a young boy to watch it for 25 centavos. ![]() The story begins with the De Los Angeles family arriving at the matriarch's (Caridad) old home. ![]() Estero de la Reina is a manmade estro, which was dug through the fishponds of Bindondo during Spanish times, in order to facilitate the passage of shipped goods. The novel takes its name from the titular Estero de la Reina (sometimes called the Canal de la Reina) - one of the rivulets, known as esteros, which delineated the small islands which historically constituted the City of Manila.
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