Retno Yunitawati

Upon the death of his wife, Yohan keeps a coffin in his bedroom and insists on being left alone, leaving his children baffled by their father’s behavior.

Ningsih is forced to marry Sapto by her father. She refuses the arranged marriage and fled away to Jakarta. She falls in love with the person she met on the internet.

In 1912, Javanese activist Omar Said Tjokroaminoto co-founds the Sarekat Islam party to fight injustices of the Dutch East Indies' colonial regime.

The story of Sultan Agung Hanyakrakusuma, the king of Mataram when he was still a teenager until he becomes a king.

Returning from Mecca, Darwis changes his name to Ahmad Dahlan as he is disturbed by the trend of Islamic laws in his society; that borders on heresy, Syrik (polytheism), and Bid’ah (wrong innovation). Using a compass, he proves that the direction of Qibla (that points to Mecca), in the Great Mosque of Kauman is wrong. The discovery angers every Kyai (Islamic experts), especially the head of the Great Mosque of Kauman, Kyai Penghulu Cholil Kamaludiningrat. Dahlan, who studied in Mecca for five years, is seen as a rebel upstart. Since the proposal of changing the direction of Qibla is rejected, Dahlan starts a movement calling for the change. On his first sermon as a preacher, Dahlan criticizes the habits of residents in his village in Yogyakarta: "In a prayer, only a sincere and patient heart is needed, it requires no Kyais, money, let alone offerings". As a result, Dahlan gets a hostile reception.

This biographical drama about Indonesia's first president recounts his nationalist crusade to seize independence from Dutch colonial rule.

Old Man Gepetto is a drunk and his life has been a mess since his wife left him. One day while sitting in the park, he meets Eve and Eve’s grandmother. Gepetto becomes enchanted by them and offers his help to finish Eve and her grandmother’s sewing until they finally become frequent visitors to Gepetto. Gepetto falls in love again, and Gepetto’s life changes for the better. After seeing him happy, his assistant advises Gepetto not to bury his feelings for too long. On the day he usually remembers his wedding anniversary with his former wife, Gepetto’s invites Eve and her grandmother to dinner.

A story from Yogyakarta. Mrs. Ninik received a call from her daughter. She can't come home on Christmas holiday because of her work in Jakarta and didn't get a day-off. One day, Mrs. Ninik have a hope after seeing one thing in her house.

Pras and Arini's love was destroyed in Arini's eyes when he chose to marry Meirose secretly. Their ideal marriage collapsed instantly.

Nabil (Kirana Larasati), has just escaped from the threat. Takur (Mike Lucock), Indian descent moneylender, hires thugs to collect debts from Nabil's father, a drunkard, gambler, and does not have responsibility. Because the father is never at home, the moneylender charges to Nabil's mother. Seeing this, Nabil takes the responsibility and says that she would pay all her father’s debts. Nabil promises to return the Rp 100 million debt within five days. Then, Nabil gets a phone call informing that her father is hospitalized. When she arrives at the hospital, the father is unconscious, because he has been through heart surgery. The father won gambling. He was so happy, so he got heart attack, The father brought home certificate as a guarantee for the medical expenses.

A Rose on Your Body tells the story of a mother who is always waiting for her child to come home from a demonstration in 1998 in the absence of certainty. In any way, the mother is looking for her child to get word. Every way he has done, radio, television, but the results never go according to expectations.

A forty years old father seeks a way to save his ill daughter by killing seven people as a way of sacrifice. He chooses his victims by waiting for red comet as a sign that there will be a suicide. One night, he's planning to kill his sixth victim that leads him to a night he won't be able to move on from.

Narno begins his morning by breaking the rules that have been made by Ainur, his wife. For a few times, everything he did was driving his wife crazy. When Narno falls asleep after feeling exhausted, his daughter Arni, calls him and makes Narno feel sad.

Shinta repeatedly calls her boyfriend, but she gets no answer. As if he just disappears in a thin air. Meanwhile in her school, Shinta becomes a gossip among her school friends. They talk about her video that is widely spread everywhere, including to her friends and neighbours. As if it’s not enough, Shinta also finds her self pregnant. And even more shocking, her best friend Ayun confirms that her so-called-boyfriend is a married man with children. It seems that Shinta’s world is crumbling down.

Three women in three regions in Indonesia in redefining their destiny. They have problems about their helplessness towards their nature as women generally, facing equality, rights, and traditions, yet transforming them into empowerment for the lives around them.