May

Antares and May a couple from different ethnic groups are separated during the May 1998 riots in Jakarta While Antares is busy as a filmmaker documenting the historic moment May is kidnapped and raped May is also separated from her mother who takes refuge in a hotel In despair Mays mother exchanges her house deeds for an airplane ticket to Malaysia with a lowly laundryman Gandang Ten years after Antares finds May in Malaysia She now has a child from a foreign reporter who saved her on that unfortunate day The reunion reveals the tragic past of May and her mother