Stand van de Maan plot
Rumidjah, a 62-year-old widow, lives in a working-class neighborhood in Jakarta with her son Bakti and her 11-year-old granddaughter Tari. Since the fall of President Suharto seven years ago, Rumidjah has witnessed the whirlwind of political and social unrest that raged in her country. Rumidjah has had enough of the chaos in Jakarta. She considers moving to her native village in the countryside, but this would mean saying goodbye to her granddaughter Tari. There is no future for the girl in the small village on Central Java, the uneducated Rumidjah knows that all too well. Increasing mechanization has made finding work considerably more difficult. Less and less manpower is needed to harvest rice on the rice fields.