A Punk Daydream

In Indonesia, otherwise beset by a number of serious problems, society is always ready to punish offences such as free thinking, tattoos or mohawks. Eka and his friends want nothing to do with majority Indonesian society. They hate everything about it – the social inequality, the ruthless pillaging of nature, the ubiquitous corruption. For young punks, their symbol of revolt becomes tattoos in visible places on the body. Although skin images are quite common in the traditional culture of the Indonesian tribes, since the days of the dictator Suharto they have come to be regarded as signs of criminality and shiftiness. Eka learns that this stigma is still strong when his own family disowns him. This remarkable film is the story of a longing for freedom, for which there is often no place in an intolerant Indonesian society burdened by its past and by prejudice and greed.