The Weight of Our Sky

During the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur, sixteen-year-old Melati a Beatles-loving teen with OCD who believes a djinn threatens her with visions of her mother's death must fight through violent streets to find her way back home. What begins as an ordinary trip to the movies spirals into a nightmare as the city erupts around her, forcing Mel to confront both the brutal reality of the riots and the voices in her own mind. Her desperate search to reunite with her mother becomes a harrowing journey through prejudice, chaos, and her own mental illness.