Check the Store Next Door

Check the Store Next Door (, also known as Check Out the Shop Next Door, or Checking on the store next door, is an Indonesian comedy-drama film produced by Starvision Plus, released on December 28, 2016 and directed by Ernest Prakasa. The film was written by Ernest Prakasa and Jenny Jusuf with story development from Meira Anastasia. Plot Erwin is an overseas university graduate content on his path to climbing the corporate ladder. He receives an offer to get promoted to work in the Singapore office, although his father suddenly falls ill and requests him to take over their little family shop. Erwin is forced to spend a month working at the little shop, pressured by his father and to the disappointment of his girlfriend Natalie, who wants her boyfriend to get his promotion. Erwin's older brother Yohan laments about his father's favoritism and tries to make his own ends meet as he struggles with his own perceived failures, ending in a tantrum calmed by his wife. Yohan has a strained relationship with his father, arising from his misbehaviour during his younger days and his wife, Ayu, who his father disagreed on. Erwin learns to take care of the shop, bonding over the shop's employees and regular customers. He finds ways to improve the shop's current system, and assists them in winning a decorating competition to the happiness of his father. Throughout his stay the local property developer visits the shop in an attempt to buy off the land. Erwin's father refuses, having sentimental value with his passed wife over the store. Meanwhile, Yohan tries to start himself out as a photographer with dreams of owning a studio. His wife Ayu, working in a cafe with dreams to open her own bakery, gets offered a piece of land for her shop by her ex-boyfriend. During one of their regular funeral visits, Ayu confesses this to Yohan and has admitted to considering it, although is happy that Yohan understands her and does not get angry at her (contrary to his anger management issues earlier on). Ayu agrees to stay in Jakarta, and work together with Yohan to get ends meet.