Arsat and his brother were brave young warriors, sword bearers to the ruler, Si-Dendring. By chance, Arsat and Diamelen met one day, and since then he could see "nothing but one face, hear nothing but one voice." He would wait to see her on a path druing the day, and by night he would sneak along the hedges of the women's courtyard just to have a glance at her. However, she was a forbidden fruit, so-to-speak.

Inchi Midah was a nobble chief and Diamelen was his concubine, nevertheless Arasat longed for her and she for him. arasat was advised by his brother asiente and wisdom , his brother told him, one day Arasat arrived to the shore on his caoe and took Diamelen running away arriving to a shore soon they spoted a long floar of the Rajah's men coming to find them.

Arsat's brother told Diamelen and Arsat to flee to the other side, where there was a fisherman's hut. He instructed them to take the fisherman's boat and then stayed back, telling them to wait for him while he dealt with the pursuers. Arsat then starts pushing the boat from shore, leaving his brother behind. He then sees his brother running down the path, being chased by the pursuers. Arsat's brother tripped and the enemy was upon him. His brother got up, then called out to him three times, but Arsat never looked back. The pursuers killed his brother and Arsat had betrayed his brother for the woman he loved, who was now dying. Towards the end of the story, symbolically, the sun rises and Diamelen dies. With Diamelen's death, Arsat has nothing because he lost his brother and wife. He now had nothing. After Diamelen's death, he tells Tuan he plans to return to his home village to avenge his brother's death. The story concludes with "Tuan"'s simply leaving, and Arsat's staring dejectedly into the sun and "a world of illusion.