Like other Muslims, Emak, -a kind old lady, is eager to perform the pilgrimage (Haj). Unfortunately, she does not have the money to fulfill her wish. Her daily cake sales are not enough, and her widower son Zein, merely hawks his paintings around the neighborhood. Zein sees her persistence, and wants desperately to realize Emak’s wish. But the unfinished problems of his failed marriage, makes him feel helpless. Meanwhile, Emak’s wealthy neighbor has gone for the Haj (the major Mecca pilgrimage) many times, as well as the Umrah (or the minor Mecca pilgrimage).

Ummi Aminah, a 68 years old ustadzah (the term originally means teacher but in Indonesian urban contexts it often translates to Islamic preacher), has loyal congregation. She has seven children. From her first failed marriage, she has two children: Umar whose wife is Risma. Risma is a typical daughter-in-law, cynical and is not in a good relationship with Ummi’s family. Risma is always worried that Umar’s family will take advantage of their wealth. This often drives Umar over his edge so that he threateans to divorce Risma. Aisyah, the second daughter, is a housewife whose husband is Hasan, a middle level civil servant, with two little children.

Sumanto's crime of cannibalism caused a commotion to everyone in a small village and made headlines in the newspapers. He recounts his life journey and crimes to a journalist.

In the days leading up to her wedding, Abel is confronted by a strange pregnant woman who claims she's carrying the child of her fiance, Wisnu. Shocked by this revelation, Abel feels that her world is falling apart and decides to kill herself. She fails her suicide attempt and suffers a near death experience. Now troubled and depressed, she finds comfort in her best friend, Charlie, who asks her to take some time off at a large getaway mansion outside of town. Strange events begin to occur as the house is haunted by apparitions of the dead. Something from Abel's brush with death seems to be following her and the only way she can escape is if she dies once again.

Six students were terrorized by a mysterious dancer while running a community service program in a remote village. Apparently, one of them violates the most fatal rule in the village.

When a sheltered young woman becomes enamored with a struggling writer, she goes to great lengths to become involved in his creative process.

Om Bebek who wants to retire as a school bus driver. He and the bus driver, Paman Gembul, want to take the children to school. It turns out that in the middle of the trip, Om Duck's bus was hijacked by a kidnapper and the fate of the children on the bus was threatened

Eleven-year-old Rena has been living in a pleasant orphanage since she was young. She cares for her “siblings” so much that she often makes trouble every time a potential adopter comes. But when a mysterious guest, Yudha, arrives, Rena is worried that she has come to adopt one of them.

"Water always goes to the East, in the East everything flows together, from the good to the bad to the worst", a Javanese proverb was said by Widya's mother just before she left for Community Service. A sign that there was something in the village at the far east. Widya, Nur, Ayu, Bima, Anton and Wahyu never thought that their KKN activities would lead to disaster. Often heard the sound of gamelan and the appearance of a beautiful dancer who began to disturb Nur and also Widya. "Badarawuhi", the village elder (Mbah Buyut) mentions the name of the dancer who continues to be unemployed Widya. An even scarier incident occurred when one of the KKN students was entangled in an agreement with the dancer, so that they were threatened with not being able to return home safely from the village known as the Dancer Village.

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500,000 and two million lives.

Tells about the journey of 17 Indonesian teenagers across 9 cities in 4 European countries namely the Netherlands, France, Switzerland & Germany) to introduce Indonesian culture through dance, music and songs