Taslim Idrus

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.

Events in the park are conflicts that have nothing to do with each other, which tells the struggle of humans in their presence against loneliness and ignorance. What is very ironic about this story is where the park which should be a place of comfort and tranquility for the people who visit it is here on the contrary.

Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and romantic love in this humorous yet poignant film are revealed through the eyes of kids.

The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.