Widi S. Martodihardjo

Ratu grapples with her sense of loss after being left by her lover; her journey to Istanbul—the city of a million stories—actually unveils a chapter of her own life that she had never known before. Amid the joy, there is a wound that Ratu inflicted on the young man who was also her roommate during their travels; that wound became the beginning of a love that could never be realized.