Bone Collectors: Seraching for Justice in the Phillipines' Drug War

Up to 30,000 people have fallen victim to former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines. A Filipino priest is exhuming the bodies of this drug war, hoping to secure evidence for possible trials against Filipino police officers and the government at the International Criminal Court.

Flavie Villanueva's goal is to determine "how these people were killed and to bring justice to them and their families after the fact." Standing by his side as an ally is pathologist Raquel Fortun. She performs autopsies on the bones. Time and again, the actual cause of death contradicts the official autopsy report. As in the case of Constantino de Juan. His relatives are listed as witnesses at the International Criminal Court because their daughter Christine was a witness to the murder of her father. The film accompanies Villanueva to the cemeteries of Manila as well as to the morgue of Dr. Fortun and lets witnesses speak.