Returning home after their honeymoon, a couple find themselves haunted by a disembodied head seeking its missing body.
Formed between factual and fictional, future and past, material and incorporeal, scientific and magic, Monisme reflects the intermingled relationships between people in Mount Merapi.
Rio Sudiro has been living with HIV from his birth, and both his parents have died of AIDS. Rio’s father passed away while he was still in his mother’s womb and his mother has recently passed away a year ago. After his mother died, Rio was taken care of by his grandmother. They live by selling fried food in front of the house and also have other stalls in the neighbourhood reselling their fried food.
When Siti loses the attention of her biological children, who are established and busy with their respective jobs, she takes care of Murni, a psychoneurotic pregnant girl. What Siti did made her children worry and forbade her. Accompanied by her adopted son Jalu, Siti is determined to take care of Murni when her physical condition is getting weaker due to cancer.
The story of the struggle of Satriya and Adam who fought together with other fellow activists for a common goal: change.
In a remote village, a pair of goats belonging to the village elder, Uwak Rahmat, have disappeared. The case coincides the arrival of Arman, an amateur detective, to the village. Uwak Rahmat suspects Arman of being the thief and gives him an ultimatum. If in two days he cannot find the goats, then Arman will be burned by Uwak Rahmat and his followers.
This film follows the daily life of the characters long before the election.