To pay off his loan debt, Togog, a casual laborer, is squeezed by circumstances and is forced to fish in a river filled with the remains of bodies that have drifted away. According to myth, fishing at the place of the dead will bring good luck. But unfortunately it wasn't luck that Togog got, it was actually a disaster that he created himself.

In the thick of the 1998 political tension in East Java, Indonesia, a guard leaves his post despite rumours of ninjas terrorising the town at night, to meet with his lover.