The Borrowed Lives

Behind a white screen in Central Java, 1926, an old puppeteer speaks one name aloud — and by morning that man lies dead in the market without a wound. Ratri sings the woman's part for his troupe and knows the sound of a lie. With a young photographer whose glass plates keep catching a shadow that should not be there, she uncovers a chest of stolen souls, a broker buying a district with fear, and a debt her own mother paid long ago.