Set in Malaya during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s this film tells the story of a girl Embun whos thrown into the forefront of the struggle against the Japanese when her freedomfighter brother Bayu and father are detained by the Japanese In the midst of it all shes also attracted to the Japanese army public relations man Koishi who is assigned to explain the Japanese propaganda to the Malays and win their Koishi also has a personal mission to fulfil in Malaya to find the Malay man who married his mother in other words his father when she served as a Japanese spy prior to the occupation