Bulan di Atas Kuburan [A Moon Hangs Above the Graveyard] Indonesien 2015. Directed by Edo Sitanggang with Atiqah Hasiholan, Rio Dewanto, Donny Alamsyah, 120 Min, OmeU, Genre: Drama

Synopsis: Feeling under developed in his hometown, Samosir, North Sumatra, SAHAT travels to the capital city and tries his luck. He is a writer, and has several times sent manuscripts to Jakarta. His latest work is said to have won a nation wide novel competition and SAHAT now plans to claim the promised right for his novel to be published.

Along for the ride comes SAHAT’s best friend TIGOR, a bus driver also desperate for a better life. TIGOR is mostly motivated by a recent encounter with an old friend, SABAR, who had moved to Jakarta long ago and occasionally returns home to share his stories of success and riches, Upon their arrival, the two young men are shattered by a disturbing truth–Jakarta is not the place they dreamed it to be. SAHAT’s wining manuscript will not be published but instead be adapted into a film for political campaign purposes. TIGOR struggles to find employment of any kind. SABAR is in fact a fraud: a penniless government lobbyist. The city is full of corruption, lies and necessary violence. SAHAT retracts his manuscript, refusing the film deal. Walks away from the fabricated publishing office and it’s mischievous owner. Nevertheless, this sparked admiration from the owner’s daughter MONA. She chases after him and can not help but to reveal her fondness for the young writer.

MONA introduces SAHAT to Jakarta’s upper class–a life SAHAT had always hungered for. Soon marriage followed. With the binding price of selling his manuscript, his ideals, his soul for the political campaign once again. TIGOR on the opposite end of the spectrum inhales poverty and violence on a daily basis. He struggles to keep his head above water in the city’s contaminated slum. Forced to partake in a gangster way of life in order to survive. SABAR–a fraud with a big heart. He fondles with illegal government tender practices to provide the dream life for his beloved wife. With one final push, he lands the project of a lifetime. A golden payoff. With inevitable consequences. »A Moon Hangs Above The Graveyard« is a tale of hardships in the capital city. SAHAT, TIGOR and SABAR, three friends from Samosir, North Sumatra, quest after greatness whilst desperately holding on to their inner idealism.