Seventeen-year-old boys Huda, Rian and Syahid are students of a pesantren (Islamic religious school). With their graduation a month ahead, they grow up and solve their lifetime problems. Huda locates his mother who abandoned him only to face her death. Rian, whose mother is about to remarry, hopes to take over his father’s video studio. Syahid sells the family land, their only property, to pay for his father′s liver transplant operations and volunteers in a suicide squad. Out of nowhere, 9/11 brings extreme changes to these suffering boys. Pesantren delicately shows individual growth in Islamic families, religion, and national duty. Their quiet but active attitudes widen the small dormitory, prayer rooms and warehouses surrounding them. They deliver warmth to the audience through their warmth. (LEE Seung Min)