Mel (Marcella Zalianty) is a young creative director at an advertising agency who is engaged to Joe (Philip Jusuf).

Didi takes her to a local café, where Are (Bucek Depp), an aspiring novelist, loans books and serves brownies.

The two spend time together and eventually begin falling in love, despite their class differences: Are was once a street child, while Mel has been raised wealthy.

Before she can leave for the dinner, Didi accosts her and tells Mel that she has become just like Joe, breaking people's hearts.

[4] A review in Republika wrote that the story had nothing special to offer and that the actors were not all giving their prime performances.

[2] Leila S. Chudori, reviewing for Tempo magazine, wrote that the plot was strong and acting generally good, but deplored the film's long stretches of dialogue, writing that she "prayed that the screenwriters would learn techniques to edit the dialogue so that the audience could breathe.

Bramantyo went on to produce more commercially viable films such as Get Married (2006) and Ayat-Ayat Cinta (The Verses of Love), both of which were viewed by more than a million people.