: Film ini mengisahkan perjuangan H.O.S. Tjokroaminoto dalam mendirikan Sarekat Islam dan menjadi guru bagi tokoh-tokoh besar bangsa Indonesia seperti Soekarno.

The film depicts the (which failed disastrously) as a turning point. Tjokro is blamed by the Dutch for being "too soft" on communists and by radicals for being "too moderate." He is arrested and exiled to West Papua.