In her final moments, she tells her son that there is no glory in war. Musa initially considers quitting his work as a courier but changes his mind after his mother is killed in a fire, leaving him orphaned. To help the Indonesian struggle, Musa and Yumna work as couriers for Resident Sudirman, traveling behind Allied and Japanese lines. In addition, Musa also befriends an older youth named Danu and an Indonesian soldier named Solehudin. Musa befriends an adolescent Indonesian Chinese girl named Yumna, an orphan who works as a spy for the Indonesian nationalists and is a former member of the secretive Kipas Hitam (Black Fan) militia group. Having lost his father, Musa finds a father figure in a Imperial Japanese Army captain named Yoshimura, who is later killed in a fight between Indonesian youths and KNIL soldiers. Prior to the Battle of Surabaya, thirteen-year old Musa works as a shoe shiner to support his ill mother. With the Dutch lacking the manpower to reoccupy their former colony, British and Indian forces land in Java including Surabaya to restore order on behalf of the Dutch. Though Indonesian President Sukarno proclaimed Indonesian independence, the Dutch wanted to restore control over the Dutch East Indies, resulting in the Indonesian National Revolution. The film opens with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed by Japan's surrender to the Allied powers aboard the USS Missouri. It won Most People's Choice Award in the International Movie Trailer Festival (IMTF). It is directed by Aryanto Yuniawan and produced by M. November 10th (titled Battle of Surabaya in Indonesia) is a 2015 anime-influenced Indonesian animated war drama film, produced by MSV Pictures.
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