Ca Bau Kan

Giok Lan, an Indonesian woman living in the Netherlands, returns home to Indonesia to search for her roots. She discovers that her mother, Tinung, a woman from a small village, was a Cabaukan, a word that used to mean courtesan. The courtesans entertained the Chinese men in colonial Indonsia. Giok Lan's father, Tan Peng Liang, was a Chinese, very successful merchant who ran a tobacco business in Batavia. Set mostly in Batavia, between 1930 and 1950, the film reveals the love story between Tinung and Tan Peng Liang, who because of their social and cultural differences, found it almost impossible to get married.