Her face is plain and simple: her lips dry without lipstick and she wears a skirt, or long dress, and a shabby white headscarf. The 19 year-old girl appears frail, unstable, and introverted. She is Cahaya, who has come from her village to Jakarta carrying only Rp70,000. Her objective is to find her father, Syaiful Herman alias Ipuy, in the film Lovely Man.

In Jakarta, she finds a disturbing situation. Her father is a transvestite! She has very mix