Best friends Maya and Dini work as
tollbooth collectors in
Jakarta. On a night shift, Maya is attacked by a man wielding a
golok, who says he is from a village called Harjosari and calls Maya "Rahayu". Maya narrowly avoids being killed before the attacker is shot dead by police. Later, Maya shows Dini an old photograph given by her aunt, who has raised her in the city since her parents' mysterious deaths. The photograph shows a young Maya, who is identified as Rahayu, with her deceased parents Donowongso and Shinta, in front of a large house. Maya and Dini travel to the remote Harjosari village to look for the house in the hope of selling it as
inheritance. Posing as student researchers in Harjosari, the pair find the long-abandoned house and encounter cold, suspicious villagers. They witness daily funerals for children taking place and observe that many headstones in the cemetery belong to newborns. Dini is lured away by villagers, who slit her throat and
flay her, mistaking her for Rahayu. While looking for Dini that evening, Maya spies village chief and
dalang Saptadi attending the birth of a skinless baby, whom he proceeds to drown. A sympathetic villager Ratih tells her that 20 years ago, Donowongso, a rich dalang, made a pact with the
devil and murdered three girls to heal his daughter Rahayu, who was born without skin. Since then, all babies in the village have been born skinless. The
ghost of one of the girls reveals to Maya that, to end the curse, she must bury the slain girls' skin, which had been made into
wayang kulit puppets by Donowongso. The ghost also reveals that Maya was born out of the extramarital relations between Shinta and Saptadi. Disapproving of the affair, Saptadi's
dukun mother Misni
jinxed Saptadi to forget Shinta, and
cursed Maya, who was named Rahayu at birth, to be born skinless. Donowongso then
sacrificed three girls to cure Rahayu's skin and, in doing so, cursed the entire village. Saptadi then killed Donowongso, Shinta, and a group of wayang musicians during a performance in front of all the villagers, and framed Donowongso for the massacre. Misni then convinced the villagers that the curse can only be undone by flaying Rahayu and making puppets out of her skin. Rahayu was evacuated by her 'aunt', who in fact was one of Donowongso's servants, and renamed Maya to conceal her identity. Maya and Ratih bury the puppets made from the skin of the three girls, pacifying their spirits. Misni arrives with the villagers and captures Maya. She appeals to Saptadi, revealing the truth. As Misni moves to flay Maya, a remorseful Saptadi takes her hand and slits his own throat instead. Horrified, Misni slits her own throat to join her son. After Ratih announces the birth of the first healthy baby in Harjosari in 20 years, the villagers allow Maya to escape. One year later, a villager suffers a violent
miscarriage. Misni's ghost has extracted the fetus and devoured it. ==Cast==