Mountain Song

Gimba (male,6 years old), a timid child, lived with Mom (45 years) who suffered disease in secluded area in the mountains of Pipikoro (South Sulawesi), the village is so isolated and the acces is too bad. Everyone who was ill should be taken from the mountain to the low land area using stretcher then sent to hospital in the city. Many of them even died on the way to the hospital.

Gimba’s father is one of them. Since then Gimba did not want to be away from his mother. He will always be there wherever his mother should be taken to the lower land by stretcher, Gimba would not feel lonely anymore. She began teaching him a song which she believed that the song could bring tranquility and happiness when he is alone. Mom left Gimba in a shade which is located between the villages and rice fields. He sat all the time in the shade and watched people keep moving taking ill person by using stretcher on foot from the high land to the lower area and ended with the patient was taken back from the hospital because she or he was dead. He also met a mysterious girl named Lara, a six-years old. Gimba started to enjoy sitting in the shade, looking at people who were talking ill person go and back while expecting to meet Lara who always turned up and missing from the forest.