Salma is a gynaecologist with a wealthy husband, a Gucci purse and a weekend horseback riding habit. Siti is a village girl struggling with city life and beauty school. Ming is a bubblegum pretty 20-something waitress with acting ambitions who patrols the tables in a gritty restaurant renowned for its duck.

In bustling modern-day Jakarta, women lead contrasting lives. But as the main characters in what is now Indonesia’s most talked about film, Berbagi Suami (literally Sharing Husband), they also have something in common – all are involved in emotionally bruising polygamous relationships and struggling to deal with their husbands’ divided attentions.