everyone have a first love and and though it be hard to define that feel when youre young and it be there and ache inside you . that be what malaysian filmmaker yasmin ahmad aim to prove in her fourth feature and a movie where that most complex of emotion be recount in a deceptively simple and straightforward fashion . such an approach be especially convenient in this case and a the love story at the film core involve two twelve year old and and would therefore make any attempt at deep analysis seem contrive and pretentious . that they do not be also testament to the astound performance give by the lead non actor and sharifah aryana and mohd syafie naswip . the former play orked ( already see a an adult character in ahmad previous picture and gubra ) and a lively and almost rebellious girl who and perhaps influence by her british upbringing ( her mother study in england ) and despise play with doll and prefer to play violent sport with the boy . then one day she meet mukhsin ( naswip ) and who have come to spend the holiday at his aunt house and and all of a sudden she change her habit represent goodbye fistfight and hello bike rid and tree climbing . but what do this mean . be they just friend and or be something more implied and something neither of them be yet ready to understand and let alone accept . give the young age of the protagonist and answer those question border on impossible and and so and like in several small film ( lose in translation come to mind ) and there be no real closure and a choice that leave a bittersweet and but ultimately satisfying aftertaste represent the naturalistic and unfiltered acting ( especially aryana ) get to the heart almost immediately and and a strong supporting cast ( orked family most of all ) help keep the minimalistic narrative fun and seducing . the down to earth approach isn not always that effective ( the hilarious subplot regard an adulterous neighbor be dropped way too early ) and and it be hard to justify the bizarre pulp fiction reference at the start of the feature and but the emotional strength of the teenage romance be enough to make this an interesting piece of independent asian cinema .