Impetigore (2019)

Best friends Maya and Dini work as tollbooth collectors in Jakarta. During a night shift, Maya is attacked by a man wielding a golok, who claims to be from a village called Harjosari and calls Maya "Rahayu". Maya narrowly escapes being killed before the attacker is shot dead by the police. Later, Maya shows Dini an old photograph given to her by her aunt, who has raised her in the city since her parents' mysterious deaths. The photograph shows a young Maya, identified as Rahayu, with her deceased parents, Donowongso and Shinta, standing in front of a large house. Maya and Dini travel to the remote village of Harjosari to look for the house, hoping to sell it as an 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 and observe that many headstones in the cemetery belong to newborns. Dini is lured away by the villagers, who slit her throat and flay her, mistaking her for Rahayu. While searching for Dini that evening, Maya spies the 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 earlier, Donowongso, a wealthy dalang, made a pact with the devil and murdered three girls to heal his daughter Rahayu, who had been 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, in order to end the curse, she must bury the slain girls' skin, which Donowongso had made into wayang kulit puppets. The ghost also reveals that Maya was born from the extramarital affair between Shinta and Saptadi. Disapproving of the affair, Saptadi's dukun mother, Misni, jinxed Saptadi so that he would forget Shinta and cursed Maya, who had been named Rahayu at birth, to be born skinless. Donowongso then sacrificed three girls to cure Rahayu's condition and, in doing so, cursed the entire village. Saptadi subsequently killed Donowongso, Shinta, and a group of wayang musicians during a performance in front of the villagers, then framed Donowongso for the massacre. Misni later convinced the villagers that the curse could only be broken by flaying Rahayu and making puppets from her skin. Rahayu was rescued by her "aunt", who was in fact 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. Maya 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 leave.

One year later, a villager suffers a violent miscarriage. Misni's ghost has extracted and devoured the foetus.