SITA (25), a karaoke bar hostess moves in a small attic room in a house cum studio belonging to JOHAN (50), a Chinese-Indonesian traveling photographer.

Sita also moonlights as a prostitute. One day, she is gang raped by a group of drunken customers and is badly beaten up and Johan saves her. Sita decides that she can no longer return to her life as a bar hostess and offers to be Johan's servant because she cannot pay the rent.

Sita finds out that Johan has only a few months to live and eventually helps him to fulfill three wishes which are represented in three photographs. One, a photo of the sea which is his wish to travel on a ship and visit China; the second, a photo of railway tracks which represents his yearning to travel by train and the third is a photo of an empty chair beside an old camera which is his quest to find a successor.

One day, Johan is enraged because Sita discovers his grim past and drives her away. Weeks pass and one evening a very ill Johan asks her to take a photograph of him. As she is about to take the photo, Johan dies. Sita pretends that Johan is still alive and using the timer she takes a final photo of her smiling into the camera with Johan sitting beside her.

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