In today's Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend and unrequited love Nastiti, and what happened on the day she vanished. In the Dutch East Indies' Semarang, a young Indo-Dutch girl, Rukmini, is captured by the Japanese military and forced into prostitution. A former war photographer revisits his memories of Hanako, the wife of a traumatized ex-Imperial soldier, but can't escape his own darkness. In Osaka, a young Indonesian woman, haunted by her past and struggling to conceive, becomes obsessed with a Japanese porn star.
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