Hooking up in bus station restrooms, hustling clients for sex in a cinema, police harassment, bullying, drugs, death and an impromptu funeral are on the menu of “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking,” a melodramatic saunter through one unnaturally long night in the Philippines.

Writer-director Petersen Vargas (“2 Cool 2 Be Forgotten”) treats us to sexiously sexual, sometimes emotional evening’s odyssey in modern day Manila.

Uno (Jomari Angeles) cruises along skywalks and through street markets of the city after dark. If his boy band looks and hair highlights don’t give away his game, his wary way of side-eyeing the world does. That hook-up at the bus station? That’s just the appetizer for the evening.

But the kid with the bruises named Zion (Miguel Odron) needs a favor. There’s a guy waiting in the station. Please give him this note.

Tagging along on Uno’s cruise is how Zion signs on for a seriously steamy 3-way in a hook-up friendly cinema’s projection booth, and how he meets Uno’s roommates.

Bayani (Argel Saycon) is tall, muscular and handsome enough to command higher prices from “clients,” and tough enough to stick up for his friends or bully anybody he choses. Miguelito (Gold Aceron) — “Ge” — is slim and slight, shorter than Zion. Rush (Tommy Alejandrino) is their hotheaded fourth.

They’re streetwise kids who know a police roundup just means a freebie for the “chief” will cut them all loose. Their world is awash in drugs, and some of them use. But it’s a client who will provide the dose that sends one into seizures, and before they can figure out how to get him to a hospital, he’s dead.

In a sentimental touch that pre-dates “Midnight Cowboy,” the kid wanted to “go home.” They’ve got to figure out a way to fool taxi or jeepney and overnight bus drivers to get their dead friend back to Pangasinan.

Vargas blends in grim, surreal dream sequences with mourning, telling us of childhood traumas that shaped these young men and bonded some of them for life. And if there’s a corpse involved, you can bet there are unintentional “Weekend at Bernies” touches.

The narrative is patient and somewhat predictable, which makes this unfold too slowly for its own good. The flashbacks meant to distract us from “We know where this is going” don’t all pay off.

But “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” immerses us in a world and gives us characters worth investing in, even if we wish they had more original backgrounds and a less predictable destination.

Rating: unrated, violence, explicit sex

Cast: Miguel Odron, Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino and Gold Aceron

Credits: Scripted and directed by Petersen Vargas. An Omnibus release.

Running time: 1:43