East of Java

East of Java is a fictional love story set during the Santa Cruz Massacre in Timor-Leste. General Suharto of Indonesia refused to accept the fact that Timor Leste had become an independent nation. He ordered the murder of more than a 1,000 citizens at a memorial service at the Santa Cruz Cemetery. In all over 200 thousand people were killed during the war. 1974 to 1998. Jack Irvine a painter from Sausalito, California gets a check for $1,000 from his Australian friend and a ticket to Jakarta. Taking the bait he finds himself in the middle of a war and running arms to the resistance fighters.