In Apoy sa Karagatan, Jestoni plays Johnny Laguna, a tough, smart-alecky private eye who goes into bounty hunting when the town's richest guy dangles a cool million bucks to anyone who could rescue his wife from the hands of the abductors holed up in an island across the high seas. A running comic twist follows Jestoni's pursuit it as he is likewise pursued by a love-hungry sex-bomb in newcomer bombshell Tara Viros.