Amin (Bambang Hermanto [id]), a village youth, attempts to earn a living in the city.

Rajuan Alam was written by Padma T Astradiningrat and directed by Miriam Bucher as a joint production of Produksi Film Negara (PFN) and the United States Information Service (USIS).

It also featured Rd Ismail as Marlina's father, as well as Boes Boestami, Ali Yugo, Chaidar Djafar, Tb Sanusi, and Pranadjaja.

Hermanto and Noor travelled to Japan to attend the screening, where the film was given the English-language title A House, a Wife, a Singing Bird.

This title was a reference to a Javanese view that all a man needed for true happiness was a place to live, a woman by his side, and a bird to sing to him.