一个名叫萨拉瓦库的小男孩为了寻找其悄无声息离开村子的姐姐比奈亚，毅然踏上了寻亲之旅。途中，他偶遇了和他姐姐有着同样困扰的萨拉斯，于是二人便结伴而行。这一路他们共同跨越重重艰难险阻，躲避四处搜寻萨拉瓦库的同村人，但途中也不乏争吵与冲突。突然出现的同村人卡瓦那向他们伸出了援手，并决心加入他们的队伍，但不久他们就发现卡瓦那所带领的路离目的地愈来愈远。等到他们到达比鲁见到了姐姐比奈亚后，却未曾想到她表示要继续一个人的生活。

A woman in the frame’s foreground watches events unfolding in a room. Suddenly, hitherto hidden by her figure, her double enters the scene, and catastrophe ensues. Is this a tricky horror-mystery-thriller by Dario Argento or Brian De Palma? No, it is the extraordinary, unexpected gesture of Indonesian master Garin Nugroho marrying his penchant for other-worldly fantasy with myriad devices of popular genre. A Rotterdam regular over the past twenty-seven years, Nugroho’s impressive body of work spans features, documentaries and shorts, among these acclaimed Opera Jawa, selected for IFFR 2007.
The tale of an enigmatic serial killer within the worlds of art and high fashion owes much to the global form of the giallo genre. Still, Nugroho reveals this framework to accommodate Indonesian mythology and spirituality entirely. Masks, snakes, clothing fabrics, trance dances; this entire iconography takes on a renewed, vibrant meaning in Deadly Love Poem. Likewise, modern criminal psychological profiling sits comfortably alongside the intergenerational traumas of family life and cultural constraints.
With its non-stop music score, ever-mobile camera, mind-blowing colour and design scheme, Deadly Love Poem stands as an exhilarating corrective to the snobbish current trend of 'elevated horror' cinema. Nugroho respects old and new traditions and whips them into an unforeseen, intoxicating delirium.
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