Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film begins following finale of TV series, Fact2: big city of Kuala Lumpur struggles to remain conservative in progressive 21st century, Fact3: Abu runs from Henry Gurney School juvenile facility after getting into fight with other inmates, Fact4: Lynn introduces Abu to book called, Fact5: Abu 's friends have struggles of their own as well
Output (English): The film begins following the finale of the TV series which revolves around a group of five teenagers from different backgrounds and how they cope with everyday struggles of growing up in the big city of Kuala Lumpur which struggles to remain conservative in the progressive 21st century. Abu runs away from the Henry Gurney School juvenile facility after getting into a fight with other inmates. He is then reunited with his four best friends, Ali, Lynn, Addi and Sophie who are celebrating the completion of their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia public examination that marks the end of their school careers. The five of them spend their last few weeks together before they each move on to their separate adult lives. Lynn introduces Abu to a book called The Traumas of Utopia. Fascinated by its poetry, Abu steals a copy from the public library. He also stays at Alis place for awhile since he is not yet prepared to face his parents. Eventually, Abu goes home to visit his dotting mother but flees after coming face to face with his disciplinarian father. Abu is estranged from his father, who keeps comparing him to his dead elder brother, who was an overachiever that made their parents proud. Meanwhile, Abus friends have struggles of their own as well. Unknown to anyone, Abus brother was Addis chat buddy named Vanilla Ice with whom she was falling in love with. Not realizing that he has been murdered, Addi is still looking for closure ever since her chat buddy disappeared. Abu tries to help her by introducing her to a middleaged man pretending to be Vanilla Ice. Sophies socialite mother is left by at the altar by her fiance, Jamal. Fearing that her daughter will leave her too, she hides Sophies acceptance letter from a foreign university in order to keep her close. Lynn, who writes comics under the pseudonym TekaTeki, decides to stop publishing her popular fanzine series, KAMI. Instead, she starts writing reviews for a local magazine. She ends up writing an unfavourable review on an upandcoming indie band called The Disasters, which Ali is secretly a member of. Apart from his struggling band and his dreadful desk job at a tour agency, Ali is faced with his parents impending divorce and turns to drugs for comfort. Later that weekend, the five friends attend a miniconcert to cool off some steam. Lynn bumps into Boy, a drug dealer who she once sold drugs for before she moved to the city from Hulu Selangor. A fight breaks out when Ali and Abu try to help Lynn avoid Boy and his minions. A few days later, Boy once again confronts Lynn but Ali intervenes by paying off her debts for her. Lynn is offended by Alis interference and warns him not to get involved in her life anymore. On the other hand, Boy is angered by the wealthy Alis arrogance and swears to get revenge. A desperate Ali contacts Razak, a pusher to get some ecstasy pills. However, his phone call is answered by Boy, who instructs him to meet one of his subordinates to get the drugs. Boy then threatens Lynn into meeting a new customer to provide him with the drugs. In a twist of events, the subordinate Ali is supposed to meet turns out to be Lynn and the new customer she was instructed to meet is Ali. The two friends are shocked to learn each others secret. Following a disastrous performance by The Disasters, Ali tries to leave as he cannot focus on his performance due to all his personal problems. Boy shows up at the scene and tries to stab Ali in the back. However, Abu ends up getting stabbed while trying to push his friend out of the way. His friends rush him to the hospital in Alis car but he dies. A few days after Abus funeral, Lynn notices he had left his bag at her mothers food stall. In it she finds a letter addressed to Addi which explains the disappearance of Vanilla Ice. Lynn sends the letter to Addi, who finally gets the closure she has been looking for all this time. In the end, Ali leaves his job at the tour agency and joins The Disasters as a fulltime member. Sophie eventually finds her acceptance letter and decides to further her studies at the university. Ali finds the book Abu stole in the backseat of his car. While visiting Lynn to mend their friendship, they find a note in the book written by Abu. He wrote, Life is a bitch, but theres still tomorrow. The two friends then contemplate the meaning of Abus words on their uncertain futures.