The story follows Alak, a young boy from the small town of Kuala Betis, Kelantan who witnessed a heated argument between a strange man and a logging baron. The strange man ran away after he was threatened with an arrest by the authorities. Alak lost his way in the magical forest after he joined the party to chase after the stranger. Alak found that he could understand the inhabitants of the magical realm after eating a chengal seed. He met with a litter of harimau cubs who were abandoned after their parents were captured by loggers. Their fate changed as Alak and the cubs took on a quest to liberate the harimau from the captors.