her for Rahayu. While looking for Dini that evening, Maya spies village chief and dalang Saptadi drowning a skinless newborn. A sympathetic villager Ratih tells her that 20 years ago, Donowongso, a rich dalang, made a pact with the devil and murdered three girls to heal his daughter Rahayu, who was born without skin. Since then, all babies in the village have been born skinless. The ghost of one of the murdered little girls reveals to Maya that to end the curse, she must bury the slain girls' skin, which had been made into wayang kulit puppets by Donowongso. It also reveals events surrounding Maya's birth. Conceived from an adulterous affair between Saptadi and Shinta and named Rahayu at birth, she was the first skinless baby born in Harjosari. Disapproving of the affair, Saptadi's dukun mother Misni jinxed Saptadi to forget it, and cursed Rahayu to be born skinless. Donowongso then sacrificed three girls to cure Rahayu's skin and, in doing so, cursed the entire village. Saptadi then killed Donowongso, Shinta and a group of wayang musicians during a performance, and framed Donowongso for the massacre. Misni then convinced the village that the curse can only be undone by flaying Rahayu and making puppets out of her skin. Rahayu was then evacuated by her 'aunt', who in fact was one of Donowongso's servants, and renamed Maya to conceal her identity. Maya and Ratih bury the puppets made from the three girls' skin in their grave and their spirits are pacified. Misni arrives with the villagers and reveals that Saptadi and Donowongso are actually half-brothers, as Donowongso's father had an affair with her. Maya is tied up for sacrifice but as Misni moves to flay her, Saptadi intervenes and slits his throat instead. Horrified, Misni slits her own throat to join her son. As a healthy baby is finally born in the village after 20 years, Maya escapes. One year later, a villager suffers a miscarriage as it is shown that Misni's ghost has extracted the fetus and devoured it. Cast Cast adapted from RogerEbert.com. Production Development Director and writer Joko Anwar described the film's concept as originating from a story his older brother had told him as a child; that the leather for Indonesian shadow puppets came from human skin. To form the concept for the film, he combined this with the idea of a strong but intimidating maternal character