Arisan! 2

Title translation: The Gathering! 2

Eight years have passed. The lives of Sakti (Tora Sudiro), Meimei (Cut Mini), Andien (Aida Nurmala) continue. Lita (Rachel Maryam), Sakti’s cousin from Medan who is once paired with Sakti, now lives in Jakarta. Nino (Surya Saputra), Sakti’s lover, has become a part of Sakti’s bestfriends’s lives too.

Time that rolls on brings these characters, settled and affluent, into realities. The process of aging, the changes in skin and body shapes, is an irritating quandary for them. Big changes are also inescapable: Andien’s husband’s death, Meimei’s divorce, Lita’s rejection toward marital institution and her decision to raise the child that she bears, not to mention Sakti’s and Nino’s same sex relationship that becomes stale and forces them to temporarily separate.

Meanwhile, life in Jakarta, full of fashion, lifestyle, cultural and art events, require the socialites to appear in perfection all the more splashily. A plastic surgery’s presence, Doctor Joy (Sarah Sechan), along with her financier, Ara (Atiqah Hasiholan), becomes a remedy for Jakartan women in the Gathering. A writer who used to criticize them, Yayuk Asmara (Ria Irawan), has even changed her course and now gains some fortune by writing their biographies. Octa’s presence (Rio Dewanto), a handsome young man, also adds up the spice at Jakartan “social scenes”.

Andien decides to channel her perfectionism and signature style by opening a business as an event designer. Lita channels her skill in law and helps her friends doing their businesses. They also help her raise and take care of her fatherless child. Sakti eludes his friends in order to cover up his relationship with Gerry (Pong Harjatmo), a middle-aged married man. Nino simply tries to understand Sakti and accepts Sakti’s choice, occupying himself in his film production.

Meimei opts to retreat from Jakarta’s hoopla. She takes a long leave to Gili Islands, Lombok, to enjoy the nature. In that different kind of life’s silence she meets Tom (Edward Gunawan), a healer, and Moli (Adinia Wirasti), a bartender, who give her new perspective in life. Sakti, Andien, Lita and Nino then face the reality that Meimei hides an illness that has been impairing her. She goes to the island not only for the holiday. And so they gather to arrange their coming there and bring Meimei’s secret to light. But other secrets come up and they have make a choice.