Nadia
Children who can't escape the trash mountain. How does poverty change children?
The trash from the megacity Jakarta is brought to Bantar Gebang and piles up a big mountain.
Nadia, a passionate young girl looks over towards the dangerous zone considered only for adults to find higher-priced trash. Nadia dreams of becoming a doctor one day to treat poor people for free. Asep, her older brother always acts tough but is soft inside. Arif, her younger brother, is bad at math but wants to be studious.
Unlike other adults who are tired of life, the three siblings shine bright with their dreams for a better future.
In reality, hunger is always closer than hopes and dreams. As the three get older, poverty disrupts the loving relationship between the siblings.
Now the three are at a crossroads. Will they follow reality or pursue their dreams?
Nadia's every day is like a war. It's not only because she picks plastic waste underneath a dinosaur-like excavator. It's the battle against the fear of being abandoned like smelly trash and that she is useless.
She told me "even flowers bloom at the trash mountain and butterflies come" and it was beautiful to me.
I want Nadia to also fly and pursue her dreams like the butterflies. I hope her harsh realities will not steal her dreams.
But the sack full of plastics she picked all day underneath the sun can't afford her a McDonald's hamburger.
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