Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta

The struggle of a father to heal his autistic son through a self-burying ritual.

PEPAK: The adventure of 3 Detectives is a fantasy short fiction about the adventures of 3 detectives in an effort to save their country which is on the verge of destruction. Helped by 'cangkriman' instructions, they had to look for separate codes in Javanese script in different locations. The separate codes they found then became the password to unlock a secret message that would save their country.

Muhammad Raditya Firmansyah, who is familiarly called Radit, is a deaf child from Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. Radit nicknamed as The Blue Eyes because his eye color is different from the eye color of the people in his environment due to a genetic disorder (Waardenburg syndrome) that also affects his hearing.

For reasons he doesn't know, Eka had to live alone with his father for a while, but Eka's father unable to take care of Eka the same as his mother. Amidst all the chaos and powerlessness of Eka in facing his life situation, he begins to understand what is happening in his family through the screams he hears during his parents' fights as well as what he sees in his days living alone with his father.