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- Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
- When an aging martial arts master chooses two of her meeker students to be her successors, two older students steal her mystical cane and pursue their rivals.
- The young nun Yohanna's encounter with the underworld of child labor in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.
- A Muslim teacher Rintik went to teach in Sumba, where she falls in love with the people and with Arsa. Can they fall in love amidst the differences?
- In 2016, Poho Maga went crazy, murdered a man and burned down the scared village of Sodan causing its Marapu ancestor spirits to leave. Now, one man must reunite the village leaders and convince them to hold a sacred Yaiwo ritual in an attempt to get the spirits to return.
- Maramba tells about the burial of the King of Sumba in Indonesia. The Marapu ritual exists to be a reflection of how Sumbanese have a sacred bond with nature and their ancestral line, as if there is no line of life that is disconnected from them. Umbu Mahani Pekulangu also known as Umbu Nai Tunga is the 16th descendant who occupies the island of East Sumba. He was the last remaining king of the Sumbanese people and buried based on their belief, namely the Marapu belief. After Umbu Nai Tunga died, all of his descendants agreed not to continue the royal system, and continue with the system implemented by the Republic of Indonesia.
- "Wulla Poddu dan Padi" records the traces of an ethnographic research on a Wulla Poddu, which is an annual ritual of the Marapu belief held in West Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, one of which is in Kampung Tarung. This ritual is the opening and the beginning of the year which is held to coincide with the beginning of planting and is interpreted as a feeling of gratitude for the previous year's rice harvest as well as the hope of the best results for the next planting season.
- In San Francisco, ordinary people can become members of an underground fight club. In Indonesia, men prove themselves by throwing spears at each other. In Benin, boys become men by enduring extreme whipping.