Okky Madasari's book is a socially critical developmental novel about Sasana and Jaka's struggle for their personal freedom - both physical and inner. It is told alternately from the perspective of Sasana and Jaka, whereby in addition to the main topic, different social topics are relentlessly addressed. The novel takes place initially during the period of the so-called new order under the dictator Suharto and in the last third after his fall in the young democracy in Indonesia.

Translated from Indonesian by Gudrun Ingratubun