 Muhammad Darwis ( Ihsan Tarore ) is a youth in 19th @-@ century <unk> , Yogyakarta , and the son of <unk> <unk> , the imam of the area 's mosque . <unk> with the mixture of Islam and <unk> Javanese mysticism , which leads to poor Javanese spending <unk> amounts of money on religious ceremonies , Darwis decides to go on the <unk> to Mecca in Saudi Arabia . While there , he studies what he considers the true form of Islam over a period of five years . 
