'' Andrea , Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina ? '' '' ( Andrea , How Is It Like to Be a Mother ? ) '' is a 1990 Filipino film and an official entry to the 1990 Metro Manila Film Festival . It is a story of a woman activist ( Aunor ) , who goes to the mountains to search for her husband who has been killed by the military . She leaves her baby with her best friend , an apolitical middle-class woman . When she comes back to claim her baby , now a grown-up boy , her fight for custody also becomes a search for truth and motherhood in an oppressive society which relentlessly destroys one 's humanity . Written by Ricardo Lee and directed by Gil Portes
1990 Metro Manila Film Festival
1990 Metro Manila Film Festival
Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina?