A man who only feels alive with the dead falls for a woman with no name — identity crisis ensues.
Adam, the mortuary officer in a hospital questions the idea of "identity" of a person, due to his own unknown past and his own lack of an identity. So he only feels alive when he is among dead people. Adam eventually falls in love with a woman without a name. Through her, he is able to find his true self and this leads him to fight for the woman’s right to live.
Acting
Tio Pakusadewo's haunting, hollow-eyed stillness.
Direction
Kusumadewa's clinical, mortuary-cold visual poetry.
Director
Aria Kusumadewa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare example of Indonesian slow cinema tackling bureaucratic dehumanization; Kusumadewa shot in actual hospital mortuaries for authenticity.
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