Murni wants to be ronggeng but she doesn't want tradition to serve men keep going. With the help of Pandu, her educated little friend, they try lying to the public that Murni has opened "kelambu" with him. But the lie doesn't work smooth when she rejects other men who want to sleep with her and made all the citizens turn around insulted her. This made Pandu expelled, they thought educated people are against the culture and both of them finally separated.

It is said that Nadin (22 years old) is one of the students who made a cultural visit to Kasepuhan Banten Kidul, she violated the rules that should not be done in the sacred traditional leuit (rice barn). This made Nadin meet a mysterious village youth named Alang (25 years old) who came to bring happiness and made Nadin fall in love but soon he disappeared. Nadin searched until she began to realize what was really happening. Under the traditional leuit she mourned her sadness dreaming of beauty that never came true.

Amid the First Dutch Military Aggression, Rahmat, a pamphlet painter, continues to voice resistance through his works. However, the loss of his wife due to the cruelty of the colonizers causes him to be labeled “mad” by society.