Onanay – Season 1
Sisters Maila and Natalie have different approach to their mother, Onay who has Achondroplasia. Maila is a nice and attentive daughter, while Natalie is arrogant and disobedient. Besides their different upbringing, they have different fathers as well.
Episodes
Pilot
Sisters Maila and Natalie have different approach to their mother, Onay who has Achondroplasia. Maila is a nice and attentive daughter, while Nataile is arrogant and disobedient. Besides their different upbringing, they have a different father as well.
Episode 2
Conscience
Natalie and her friends decide to play a malicious prank on Maila and her family when they decide to set fire to the marketplace, but don’t realise their malicious prank has gone out of hand when the entire marketplace is burned down, ruining Manila’s family’s livelihood.
Dread
Natalie and her friends, Louise and Wendy, perform their malevolent prank on Maila, trapping her on a boat in the middle of the sea, but their plan goes awry when a fight breaks out on board and in an attempt to hurt Maila, Natalie accidentally hits the engine, causing it to explode as sending them into the ocean. Things become even worse when Maila and Natalie both get swept away by the strong waves and wash up on the shore of a deserted island.
Goodbye
Enraged by what happened to Natalie, Helena begins to enact her malicious revenge against Onay and her family by burning their home down and leaving them on the streets to invalidating Maila’s scholarship. The worst is yet to come for Onay’s family...
Danger
Maila begins to start busking, using her musical talent to collect money following her family’s recent misfortunes, she is approached by a kind woman and is offered a chance to perform at a club. She accepts the offer but is shocked when she is coerced into becoming a teenage stripper for older men.
Rising
After refusing to perform, Maila is beaten, assaulted and humiliated by the owners of the club, she is tied up and locked up in a guarded room and tries to escape, only for her to run into a still-blind Natalie and Helena. She begs for help but the two refuse to help her, and she is recaptured. Onay and Nelia attempt to find out more about Maila’s disappearance and head to the club where Maila has supposedly headed to.
New Year, New Life
Tension heats up at Chelsea’s birthday party when Maila confronts Natalie and Onay is ready to spill one big secret that will warp Natalie’s view of her reality forever.
Rejection
Onay struggles to reconnect with Natalie, who continues to harshly reject her attempts to make amends.
Pain
When the results of the DNA test come back, Natalie struggles to accept the truth of her mother and storms out. While Maila and Onay are initially overcome with joy, they are worried by how they will be able to make Natalie accept them into her life.
Please
Onay and her family become more desperate to take back Natalie from Helena. Natalie is adamant on returning to her biological family and heads over to Onay’s house, where she makes a scene and initiates an argument between her and her biological family. Both Helena and Onay worry as the verdict of the child custody trial draws nearer.
Not Giving Up
Helena and Natalie’s attempt to escape from the police falls apart and Helena is taken away to prison; Natalie awaits an uncertain future as Onay hopelessly attempts to reconnect with her long lost daughter.
Lucas’ Confession
Onay is saved and returns home to the news that her long lost daughter, Rosemary, will be coming back to them. Natalie is reluctant to come over and join their life but ultimately chooses to stay with Onay, if it means that Helena will be released. Onay and her family set up a mini-party to celebrate the return of Rosemary but Natalie is offended and makes a scene at the party, tearing down a sign and making it clear to everyone that she is Natalie and not Rosemary, she insults Onay, Maila and her entire family, resulting in Dante grabbing her by the hair and attacking her until Lucas holds him back, what Onay’s family don’t realise is how far Natalie will go to ruin their lives...
Sympathy
Natalie struggles to adjust to her new life with Onay and her family, having been scolded and told off by Onay and Lucas for trying to run away and meet with Helena, who she is forbidden to meet. Lucas and Maila bond together; afterwards, Lucas attempts to convince a disgruntled Natalie to be kinder and more loving to her poor mother, who has waited so long for her to come back, but Natalie acts as always, rolling her eyes and ignoring any advice. Despite Natalie’s attitude, Natalie’s friend, Louise, is allowed to come over and stay the night, in the hopes Natalie will somehow warm up to Onay. However Natalie continued to act rude and disrespectful when Onay offers her and Louise food, and trashes her room. When Nelia catches them, she tells Natalie to clean up but Natalie refuses, continuing to disrespect Onay and her family. When Onay arrives in the room, she attempts to defuse the situation until Nelia slaps Natalie in the face when she rudely chooses not to clean up the room.
Destruction
Tension is heightened when Natalie and Helena meet once more in secret and plot to ruin Onay’s life, the tension only spills over when it appears Natalie has run to the local barangay police department with cuts and bruises all over her body, alleging that Onay and her family have been abusing and maltreating her.
Natalie vs. The Matayog
Helena and Natalie’s dirty secret is exposed when Louise, Natalie’s best friend, reveals that she saw Natalie self-harming herself in Helena’s car in an attempt to leave Onay’s family and return back with Helena. Dante, Maila, and Nelia are infuriated and drag Natalie back home along with the rest of Onay’s family, where Natalie is scolded and told off by her family. Enraged, Dante grounds her and takes away her phone: her only way to contact Helena. Crushed with defeat and frustrated at her failure, Helena concocts a brand new devious scheme.
Final Tuesday
Lucas and Onay are due to be married and to celebrate their imminent marriage, head to a party where other couples due to be wed eat, drink, and chat. Yet the party is about to be ruined when Helena arrives and reveals the most shocking secret that will shatter everyone's minds and the foundations of their relationship, to a million pieces.