RIri Riza’s short film when he was still in film school tells a story about a boy who wants to ride a merry go round.
Di sebuah pesantren di Kediri, ada seorang pemuda bernama Syamsul (Dude Herlino) yang rela meninggalkan kehidupannya yang cukup nyaman demi tekadnya untuk belajar menuntut ilmu dan bergabung dalam pesantren.Kehidupan dalam pesantren membuatnya dekat Zizi (Meyda Sefira), seorang putri pemilik pesantren yang sebelumnya pernah menolong Syamsul saat dia dijambret di kereta.
Siti Zahrana’s academical success makes her parents worried. Zahrana hasn’t married by her early thirties. There have been many men who solicited her, but she has refused them all politely. Zahrana’s conflicting issues spring up: to follow her parents’ wish or to pursue her own dreams. Actually she has relented once. She turns down a teaching post at Gadjah Mada University. The reason, her parents who live in Semarang don’t want her to be away. So Zahrana teaches at a Semarang university and stays with them. Then she also passes up a doctoral scholarship opportunity from China.
