Ikhsan had not pass to the next grade twice. Ikhsan’s friends told he was an idiot. This made Ikhsan often involved in a fight with them. Ikhsan was expelled from school due to underdevelopment. Ikhsan parents decided that Ikhsan need a boarding school. It turns out that school discipline could not made any progress. Ikhsan future increasingly uncertained until a new teacher, Aaron, realize that Ikhsan suffer from dyslexia. Aaron had suffered the same disease as a child. Aaron helped Ikhsan find his potential, and to rebuild his confidence by supporting him to follow a drawing competition.
Bullied and slandered by the naughty kids, Galang, the smartest boy in class, is branded as a troublemaker by the teachers and the headmaster. Even Ariel, his classmate, shuns him and believes the negative rumors. Galang is upset and takes revenge on all the boys who have bullied him, including Ariel, by leading them to a house where children have been mysteriously disappearing. The rumor is that a half-human creature has been eating the children who go inside. Feeling guilty, Galang quickly notifies the school principal to report to the police. But the headmaster does not believe him. So Galang decides to rescue Ariel by himself.
Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.
The film weaves around four stories all happening in metropolitan, dehumanizing Jakarta. In fact that is what it is about, the quality of meaninglessness of living in a place that turns people into zombies. In a place where meaning must be invented, these kids turn into the only place, the only culture they see worth tuning into: television and movies. Thus they slowly degenerate into the abysmal reinterpretation in a sort of sickening anti-hero, anti-social statements that goes absurdly a wrong turn.
