![]() ![]() Armed with a Red Cross curfew pass, Mel and Vince scour the city helping those in need. While the war between the Chinese and Malays rages on, Mel finds an ally in Auntie Bee’s son, Vince. ![]() ![]() Wracked with guilt, Mel must battle her rising anxiety and the Djinn’s accusatory voice to find her missing mother. On May 13, the first day of the riots, Mel is saved by Auntie Bee, a Chinese-Malaysian stranger, and forced to leave her best friend, Saf, for dead. Mel believes a djinn has taken over her consciousness and if she doesn’t placate it by counting in threes-her compulsive behavior-all her loved ones will die, and it’ll all be her fault. Sixteen-year-old Melati Ahmad, a Malaysian of Malay descent, has obsessive-compulsive disorder. A girl battling mental illness searches for her mother during the historic race riots of 1969 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ![]()
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