The Life and Loves of Victoria chronicles the journey of a young and liberated Filipina who has just graduated from college and goes abroad to work as a customer service executive for a big shipping line.
 
Victoria is one hell of a woman: worldly, passionate, sensual, lustful, mentally fierce, and highly emotional. This novel explores the intimate details of her romantic and sexual affairs in an unnamed country, in Singapore, and back in the Philippines. It follows her aspirations, desires, losses, survival, and triumphs.