Yesaya Mishael

An anthology of seven stories exploring the unseen spaces that shape us: between memory and desire, departure and return. Each lifetime captures fleeting moments of connection and transformation across time and space, where meaning hides behind invisible skies

In a post-New Order Jakarta, Native Indonesians (Pribumi) are legalized to perform the black magic ritual “Babi Ngepet” to balance their economy against Chinese Indonesians. When Kai, a Chinese Indonesian boy, needs money for university, he asks his best friend Nala, a Pribumi girl, to perform the ritual for him.

Two people meet at the edge of goodbye. They don’t try to stop it. They just decide to make it evergreen.

Launa, a beautiful and cheerful girl, falls in love with Karang, a man with two personalities. Struggling between his shattered identity and sadness, Karang tries to escape from his true self, haunted by a traumatic past with his mother, Andira, who was harsh and never showed him affection. While Launa fights to bring him back to his true self, will she be able to open the heart of a man who only longs for his mother's embrace?