This film is based on the reality of Indonesia, the largest Moslem community in the world, where polygamy has always been a controversial issue.
Three women from three different social classes and ethnic background convey their passages in dealing with polygamy. They face the same predicament of having to share their domestic life and the love of one man with several women.
The faithful Moslem Salma questions the morality behind the practice of polygamy. Siti, a Javanese village girl, hopes for a better life in the big city of Jakarta. And Ming, a Chinese-Indonesian beauty willing even to become a kept mistress to fulfil her ambitions of stardom. Over the course of a day, their lives intersect without realizing that they share a similar story.

Screenplay Nia Dinata
Photography (colour) Ipung Rachmat Syaiful
Editing Yoga K. Koesprapto
Music Hanindito Sidharta, David Tarigan, Aghi Narottama, Bemby Gusti, Ramondo Gascaro
Sound Antoine Corbin, Satrio Budiono
Cast Jajang C Noer, Dominique A. Diyose, Shanty, Nara, El Manik, Om Leo
Production Elza Hidayat
Year of production 2006
Running time 119’
Format 35mm

Nia Dinata

Nia Dinata was born in 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia. She graduated in Mass Communication at the Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and took film production at the New York University. After returning from the USA in 1995, she worked in various projects, mostly for the television. Her first feature film debut was the colossal epic The Courtesan in 2001, the first movie about the Chinese community in Indonesia after the Indonesian reform era. The film won the award for the Best Promising New Director and for the Best Art Director at the Asia Pacific Film Festival of Seoul in 2002. In 2003 she directed The Gathering, a satirical comedy about gay characters, with a screenplay written by herself and Joko Anwar. In 2004 she was invited to join the Cannes Young Directors Program. With the independent production company she owns, Kalyana Shira Films, she produced in 2005 the feature film Joni’s Promise, the debut for Joko Anwar as a director.