La Luna follows a bold woman who opens a lingerie store in a conservative village, and the villagers who support her and those who don’t. The film is currently streaming on Netflix.
Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers
Plot summary
Hanie Abdullah moves to Bras Basah, a conservative village, and opens a lingerie store on her late grandfather’s unoccupied property.
The village chief — mullah Tok Hassan, opposes it and tries his best to rally all the men against it.
Meanwhile, the women flock to the store in consecutively larger quantities when their bras do wonder for their sex lives.
When his political and corrupt methods don’t suffice, Tok Hassan resorts to arson, and is eventually dealt the justice he deserves.
Hanie is helped by the villagers and Police Chief Salihin, whom she becomes romantically involved with, as La Luna rolls the credits.
Ending explained:
Tok Hassan’s relentless orthodoxy
Tok Hassan is the village mullah who continuously censors the progressive ways of the new village Ustaz, Fauzi.
He is very orthodox and imposes his dated and regressive ways on others, including Fauzi.
He is ideologically opposed to the opening of the shop.
To shut it down, he rallies men to sign a petition for it. However, their wives get them to withdraw.
So he tries bribing the officer from the state office, to insert the names anyhow.
However, the officer can only do so with the village ustaz’s approval.
But Fauzi declines, because he disapproves of Tok’s goals and methods, and also sees him bribing the officer.
Setting fire to La Luna
With all other methods yielding no result, Tok Hassan torches the lingerie store.
He makes Pa’at, an abusive husband to his wife, who one day takes refuge inside La Luna, and he obsessively itches to get her out of there.
However, even Pa’at can’t set the place ablaze, and so Tok does it himself, using his lighter.
Azura, the daughter of Police Chief Salihin, was present inside during that time and fell victim to the fire.
However, she is saved and hospitalized and eventually recovers. Salihin finds Tok’s lighter in the rubble afterward.
He confronts Tok about it at the community center, where he manages to broadcast Tok as he confesses to his crimes.
Tok is sent to jail, and before the film rolls the credits, he’s seen sewing clothes — as an inmate — that are going to La Luna eventually.
Hanie stays
Hanie Abdullah opened a lingerie store in Doha one time, and the conservative and violent men torched it down.
She decided to open it again, this time on the unoccupied property belonging to her late grandfather, in the small and slow village of Bras Basah.
She is determined not to have her shop suffer the same fate as her previous endeavor. Unfortunately, the worst happens again.
Tok Hassan sets her shop ablaze and Azura gets hurt.
She blames herself and despite other women who have been empowered by her and her shop convincing her not to feel that way, she thinks it better to leave.
However, Police Chief Salihin, who likes her and she likes him, takes her to where her shop used to be.
She witnesses the women and other villagers working hard to restore and rebuild La Luna, which tugs at her heartstrings and she decides to stay.
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