The end of the twentieth century brought great change and political protest to Indonesia, with longtime ruler Suharto resigning in 1998 and various pretenders and power brokers scheming to fill the void. For one “ordinary” Jakarta family, however, life is both entirely different and exactly the same: the matriarch Rumijah, her two sons Bakti and Dwi, her granddaughter Tari, and assorted friends and neighbors may suddenly be surrounded by protestors, political rallies, and crackdowns, yet still need to survive day-to-day. Helmrich's visionary camera techniques swoop the viewer directly into Jakarta's streets, but the most riveting elements of this documentary are his remarkable subjects, as likeable as they are complex, and as unique as they are universal.