Absent without Leave

A director from Malaysia, in order to explore the absence of his grandfather in his life, pieced together the complete appearance of his original family, but found that behind his personal family history, there was a past that an entire generation did not want to face, and a group of people who had devoted their blood but disappeared from the world. people. The history of colonization, resistance to Japan, and the Communist Party, as well as the identity issues of Malaysia's multi-ethnic groups, emerge one by one in the reconstruction of the story; and the director's narration throughout the film seems to raise questions about himself and the nation.