A competition between black magicians Anggoro (Johny Indo) and Lestari (Suzanna) results in Lestari being banished into the woods with a broken body. After he brother's death, she becomes suicidal until she runs across Ki Jagasatru (Clift Sangra), who comes from the South Seas with a recipe for revenge.
The story of Wulan (Debby Cynthia Dewi), the captain of a passenger ship with two of his men who were also girls and became sailors to escape from his bitter past. The story begins when docked. Wulan was grabbed and assisted by Johan (George Rudy) then became a close friend. Wulan's men who were former prostitutes were kidnapped by his germ, but could escape. Then the story of the ups and downs on the ship faced by the sailor girls.
A melodramatic suffer-fest that would give Lars von Trier pause. On a quest to find her biological father, teenager Yeni is sidetracked when she's raped by her stepfather and ends up in a nuthouse. After she's released, her prostitute sister takes her to work at a brothel. There, she becomes second wife to an old, miserable man until her stepfather returns and tries to lay claim on her. After unsuccessfully trying to strangle Yeni to death, he and Yeni's mother get in a fight and end up stabbing each other to death. Once Yeni finds out she's pregnant, she's then rejected by her miserly husband, who denies the child is his.