OMBAK TERAKHIR

On the eastern edge of the Indonesian archipelago, seventeen-year-old Maharani repairs outboard motors in her father's shrinking workshop. The boats come back emptier each season, and the villagers whisper about ghosts in the shipping lanes — trawlers that arrive at night, scrape the reef clean, and vanish before dawn.

When her father disappears during a routine fishing trip, Maharani inherits more than his tools. Hidden inside the hull of his last boat she finds a waterlogged notebook, a hacked GPS logger, and the final coordinates of a vessel that should not exist. The evidence points to a syndicate that has been stripping the marine reserve for years, protected by silence and the indifference of distant harbormasters.

Determined to finish what her father started, Maharani joins forces with a young marine biologist, a former smuggler turned whistleblower, and the elderly keeper of the island's last lighthouse. Together they piece together a trail of bribed inspectors, falsified manifests, and a single floating factory ship that processes the stolen catch far beyond the reach of any coast guard.

As the monsoon closes in and the syndicate turns its attention to the island, Maharani must decide whether to publish the evidence and damn the village's only buyer — or burn the notebook and let the tide keep its secrets. The Last Tide is a documentary-fiction hybrid about inheritance, courage, and the quiet war being waged on the world's last wild shores.