There is a village where the entire population defecates in the river. The only toilet in the village is a goose neck toilet owned by the village head. In the village there is a smart boy named Aswin who likes to read. Because he loves to read, Aswin understands many things. He wishes to own a toilet one day.

At Lawaloba on the island of Flores, there was an old man Opa Hali, struggling againts the closure of an emergency lane to the hill which was the only shorcut for the population to survive in the event of tsunami disaster.

Yuma never dared to face a group of children who always bullied him, Omar and his friends. He always tried to run and hide from them, until one day Yuma met a reclusive veteran named Sudirman. Yuma asks Sudirman to teach him how to fight his oppressors. Through their friendship, Yuma and Sudirman learn to face their respective fears, Yuma learns to be brave to face their oppressors and Sudirman learns to be brave to face his biggest fear, his past.