Motif focuses on a police investigation and its most obvious innovation is the female perspective that the director imposes. Protagonist Dewi (Sharifah Amani) is a police officer who is sent from the capital of Kuala Lumpur to a provincial area, Tanah Merah (lit. “Red Earth”), to investigate the disappearance of the young daughter of the local community’s richest family. From the beginning, her arrival is greeted with distrust by her male colleagues, who are doubly annoyed by the fact of having an outsider who is also a woman intrude in the community.
Sharifah Amani
as Dewi
Rosyam Nor
as Hussein
Iedil Putra
as Faisal
Taqim Zaki
as Inspector Rizal
Redza Minhat
as Ilham (voice)
Azhan Rani
as Kamal
Sherie Merlis
as Suri
Fadhli Masoot
as Azlan
Nadia Aqilah
as Lena (voice)
Azman Hassan
as Shukor
Khalid Salleh
as Yasmin Father
