A pickpocket steals a heart along with the wallet—Hong Kong's grittiest meet-cute.
Tala lives with her mother and her uncle in Hong Kong. They're stuck and can't go back to Indonesia. Tala begins to team up with her uncle to be pickpockets on the streets. Tala stole Musa's wallet and they soon find love for each other.
Acting
Tatjana Saphira's magnetic, wounded vulnerability.
Cinematography
Hong Kong's neon alleys vs. Jakarta's memory.
Writing
Crime-romance that actually earns its tenderness.
Director
Guntur Soeharjanto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare Indonesian films to shoot extensively in Hong Kong, capturing the specific isolation of the Indonesian diaspora there. Ahmad Al Ghazali's casting drew massive social media attention in Indonesia due to his famous family lineage.
The pickpocket sequences were choreographed with actual former street thieves as consultants—explains why Tala's techniques look practiced rather than Hollywood-glamorous. Director Guntur Soeharjanto deliberately avoided the 'exotic Indonesia' visual tropes common in cross-border romances.
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