Daughter of Independence

As a child Wenny Achdiat experienced the tumult of the Japanese occupation and the Revolution against Dutch rule. Subsequently she struggled for her own independence first with her parents as a teenager then with her oil executive husband during the chaotic Sukarno era and finally with her loneliness as a single mother in Australia. Daughter of Independence interweaves Wenny's story with that of her father the controversial writer Achdiat Karta Mihardja whose first novel Atheis became a classic. Independence brings both joy and sorrow for Wenny and tests the strong bond between father and daughter.