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In October of 2002, Jakarta-based puppeteer and troubadour Agus Nur Amal found his life forever changed when a suicide bomber exploded himself in a Bali nightclub. A man who skillfully uses humor to confront serious emotional issues, Amal travels to Bali determined to hold accountable those who supported the reprehensible crime. While the children who attend his shows laugh heartily as Amal reenacts the attack on the World Trade Center in an enormous television set and a puppet of Osama Bin Laden sways his hips, the room goes silent as his shadow play shifts to focus on a pair of recent bombings in Indonesia. Later, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich uses creative editing to portray an interview between Amal and the perpetrators of the bombing and Amal speaks with a paranormal advisor in hopes of learning the suicide bomber's ultimate fate.