Fishing Platform

After his mothers death 12yearold Jaya Iqbal S Manurung is sent to his father Johar Didi Petet who works as a supervisor on a jermal a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea Johar is shocked never knowing he has a son and rejects the boy as his kin Fully aware he cant bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work on the jermal Jaya decides to take fate into his own hands He gives up hope on being accepted and learns the skills and attitude needed to survive on the jermal Jaya increasingly becomes like the other boys a tough rough survivor while Johar is forced to gradually face and accept his past Eventually both Johar and Jaya learn that they are bound by their past united by the space in which they move and connected by the inescapable truth