Dalagang Bukid is a story about a young flower vendor named Angelita (Atang de la Rama), who is forced by her parents to marry a wealthy old man, Don Silvestre, despite her love for Cipriano, a law student.
The stories take place in one afternoon. We are first introduced to an amateur band of twenty-somethings; the members consisting of a drummer, a bassist, a lead guitarist, and a rhythm guitarist. The band meet up in a dark basement where they commence their session with a loud piece. As the music continues to play, the film jumps to a kitchen, where we are introduced to a young woman. The young woman arrives furious (though reasons are open to interpretation), and impulsively opens the refrigerator; where the first thing she sees is a box of strawberries. From here, she decides to take out her anger by cooking.
Ruben Natividad a.k.a. Tikboy Tikas (Zoren Legaspi), a typical ordinary man, leader of the United Akrho fraternity.He was a witness of the slaying of two police officers of Makati who handled the case of a Mr. Tanaka. Fidel (Roy Alvarez), a hired killer who by the order Sergio (Subas Herrero), a mob boss killed two other witnessess.Sergio tried to bribe Judge Montejo (Lito Legaspi), to dismiss the case of Tanaka, but Judge Montejo disregarded his proposal.Because of this he gave an order to his men to kill the only witness left, Tikboy Tikas.When they failed to capture Tikboy, they kidnapped his mother (Tessie Tomas) and his girlfriend Donna (Jenny Roa).When Tikboy, knew about this, he planned to take revenge and rescue his beloveds with the help of his fraternity.
The plot starts with the awarding of "The Conjowa 1" as the Movie of the Year as well as Eric Aquino as the Director of the Year. Anjoy "Joy" Masayahin(Rachel), is a native of Bacolod City who goes to Manila in search of a job for her family in the province. She discovers and meets the Production Staff of the said movie, they are Eric (Eric), Maymay (Janielle), Jillaine (Julliane)and Greg (Jiemel). Exactly, it's also the moment when the staff talks about their movie production and when they saw Joy, they hired her as an extra for the movie. When Joy came to their first shooting day, she met Andy (Rency), who became her boss and the one who often bullies Joy, She also met Mark (Dave) and Denille (Mib) who also bully her. The situation of Joy's life in their shooting days is the turning point of the story.