At night, members of the cult surround the house as a storm rages, but after Bahri tells them he is unwilling to give up Ian, they leave. The next day, when delivering an urgent letter from Budiman to Rini, Hendra gets run over by a truck.īahri decides to move to town with his children. They fear for the safety of Ian, who turns seven in three days. Budiman gives Rini his article about a fertility cult of Satan worshippers that target barren women who want to have children, with the caveat that the last child be surrendered voluntarily in seven years.
Budiman, an occult writer, reveals that when Bahri was going to marry Mawarni, Rahma did not approve due to Mawarni’s career and indications of infertility. After finding an unsent letter on Rahma's desk to a man named Budiman, Rini and Hendra deliver it to him downtown to seek his help. At home, the children are haunted by a ghostly presence of Mawarni, then Bondi and Rini find their grandmother Rahma dead inside the well. Bahri leaves to raise money for mortgage payments in town.
The family live amid financial hardship as Mawarni is ill and bedridden, and the royalties from her former singing career are long gone.Īfter Mawarni dies, the family are consoled by an ustad and his adult son Hendra, who recently moved to the neighbourhood. The film focuses on a struggling family living in the countryside in 1981: Mawarni, her husband Bahri, his mother Rahma, and the couple’s four children: 22-year-old Rini, 16-year-old Toni, 10-year-old Bondi, and six-year-old Ian, who is deaf.