An oplet (a small taxi) driver, Tarno, never feels that he earns enough in his village. So he decides to try his luck in the city and leaves his wife and child at home. His luck doesn’t change much until he starts working as a personal driver. But he then realises that he is working for the boss of a drug syndicate. As he refuses his boss’s order to sleep with Mira, he is locked up. Luckily his friend, who brought him into the syndicate, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Rose takes her child to look for him to Jakarta. She wanders aimlessly and leaves her child in an orphanage. Fortunately, she is found by a group of street musicians who stumble upon her when she is about to be raped. Rose joins the group because she has a singing ability. Then the leader of The Brims Band discovers her and she becomes an even more popular singer.

Atiek and Tika are always competing with each other. This rivalry has led to funny situations but also gives trouble to their friends and teachers. Then Atiek and Tika bet on who will be chosen as a movie star by a company casting for an actor. The loser has to kiss her boyfriend in public. In the end, the girls become best friends, class champions and famous movie stars.

Maria since childhood was directed by her father to become a nun. As a result of her father's cultivation of a rigid appreciation, Maria always feels awkward, including the delinquency that is common for a girl. He also first falls in love with Guntur. Maria finally actually became a nun.

After being constantly insulted by people, and with his child seriously ill, Parjo starts practicing "ngipri," or the worship of monkeys to attain magical power, wealth, fortune and revenge on those who've mocked him. However, it expects him to pay a high price, including being forbidden to own or enjoy his own fortune and sacrificing his own wife.