M. Dinu Imansyah

DEVIL wants to retire early. He proposes his idea to the judges of hell. He is bored. He argues that he is no longer needed in the human world. Humans are capable of evil on their own. The judges decide to put Devil in a trial programme by sending him to the human world as a mere human. The devil becomes a 34-year old imam (Islamic priest), named Mat Jaelani. What would happen if a devil becomes a priest in a village full of loyal followers?

Crisscrossing between the stories of Rima, a dynamic recruit whose ambition is soon thwarted by Islamic convention; the disaffected Jabir, who is looking for a way out of a cycle of poverty and Asimah, who desperately searches the streets for her kidnapped daughter.

A father and his only son who rented a house in a village that has one specific rule: nobody is allowed to speak loudly.

After a tragic accident that killed her mother and left her daughter Nirmala missing, Wening embarks on a desperate search for Nirmala, enlisting the help of a podcaster, a Japanese researcher, and a shaman, all while haunted by her mother’s ghost and dark secrets from her past.