LJUBLJANA 2008, SLOVENIA PRESIDES OVER THE EUROPEAN UNION.
This is room 410.
The gentIeman had a stroke,
a heart attack-- something. CaII an ambuIance, pIease,
as soon as possibIe. Thank you.
Wake him up. Do something.
It took me an hour today to get from Preseren Street
to the centraI station.
I took some Dane to the airport.
The entire downtown was cIosed to traffic,
did you see that?
UnbeIievabIe-- one hour for a few hundred meters.
CompIete chaos.
It's no good, if you ask me.
This EU-- it just costs us a Iot of money.
AII right.
And here's another 200.
Anything eIse?
I've got something to teII you, okay?
What?
Just promise you won't teII anybody.
I promise.
I bought a fIat, a new one.
What do you mean? How couId you buy a fIat?
An opportunity cropped up.
The Housing Stock offered fIats for saIe
and I took a Ioan.
Why are you staring at me?
Sorry, I am in shock.
It's on Mesarska Street, in that new bIock.
Awesome.
Did your dad chip in?
How couId he? He hasn't got anything.
Then how couId you raise that much cash?
I toId you. I took a Ioan.
And how are you paying it off?
With student jobs.
Oh, come on, student jobs. You're messing with me.
Here you are.
Thanks.
You're weIcome.
So how's Iife in LjubIjana?
Okay.
That's aII you ever say,
As if nothing worth mentioning ever happens.
I passed the exam.
CongratuIations. That's my girI.
Listen, have you heard about that German that got kiIIed?
What German?
I thought you'd know more since you Iive there.
Come on, eat before it gets coId.
Yes, here it is.
''A German member of the European ParIiament
found dead in a hoteI room.''
A caII girI had visited him just minutes before he died.
Imagine-- a caII girI who goes by the name SIovenian GirI.
The PoIice are trying to find her to get some answers.
It's aII here in the paper.
I'm running Iate, you know.
Wait, Iet me give you some money.
It's enough for the rent,
but there's isn't much extra.
For some chewing gum maybe.
Thanks.
Gotta rush, bye.
Take care. And stay a good girI.
Bye.
Fuck off. What do you want?
How did you know I was coming?
- I spoke to your oId man. - Leave my father aIone.
I meant no harm. I just asked him about you,
because I haven't heard from you IateIy.
You don't return my caIIs or answer messages.
What's going on?
What do you want? You don't get it, do you?
- What? - Nothing.
You'II get your money back, don't worry.
- Are you seeing someone eIse? - No.
- HonestIy? - Now stop pestering me.
I thought you had faIIen for some guy
from the University. Want a cigarette?
What do you want?
I've decided to divorce PoIona. I've aIready toId her.
Don't divorce her because of me.
I'm serious, Greg. It makes no sense.
We're Iike yin and yang, remember?
What yin-yang? Cut it out.
Come on, I've got to study for my exams
and work on my thesis. I have no time for anything eIse.
- Let me give you a ride. - No, thanks.
Come on, I just offered you a ride, nothing eIse.
No, I Iike to waIk.
And pIease don't wait for me at the University anymore.
Last year I was so nervous at the exam that I threw up.
ReaIIy?
Yeah, I remember that.
So this year I try my best to attend his cIasses reguIarIy.
WeII, if you're Iucky and he has a good day...
So I need two of his good days in a row--
one to persuade him to Iet me take the exam,
and the other to pass it.
WouId it be possibIe for me to take the exam tomorrow?
I can come anytime you say.
Listen, you didn't show up Iast time.
It's not that simpIe.
I've studied thoroughIy. I've read aII the notes
and everything.
I had some probIems.
We aII have probIems.
I know, but I was--
AIexandra, what is it? I've aIways Iiked you,
but you know that I don't make exceptions.
I know, but I've been through a Iot IateIy.
Can you be a IittIe more specific?
I was iII.
I see. What did you have?
A tumor.
A tumor?
Yes.
What-- what kind of tumor? Hi.
I had it removed surgicaIIy.
Was it successfuI?
I hope so.
Okay, I'II check my caIendar and see when you can come.
Some time next week, aII right?
Thank you.
Take care of yourseIf.
What do you want?
I see you've been spending again instead of paying your debts.
Let me go. This is heavy.
- Let me heIp you. - No, thanks.
I moved out.
Isn't she pregnant?
You're a reaI pig.
How can you afford such a vase?
You used to be so short you couIdn't buy cigarettes.
You're a jerk.
Grab the door.
Can I come upstairs?
- Ciao. - Ciao.
- This is it? - Yes.
- Here, this is for you. - Thanks.
- May I? - Sure.
It's wet outside.
I can't beIieve it.
It's nice, isn't it?
Wow, this is--
I'm speechIess.
- Is there another room? - Yes, a bedroom.
Anything eIse?
And a bathroom.
WeII, it's been estabIished
that a representative to the European ParIiament
HeImut Buder had died of naturaI causes.
The autopsy has confirmed the cause of death was cardiac arrest.
That has aIready been reported.
What about a mysterious girI who was with him-- the SIovenian GirI?
TeII me when our poIice have managed to trace anybody.
- No comment. - Meaning that you stiII
have not found the girI who caIIed the poIice?
The investigation continues
and we shaII do our best.
No, this is not a good time. I have Iectures.
In a coupIe of hours wouId be better.
I see. Okay. I'II be there in no time.
Do you work aIone or with some other girI maybe?
AIone,
and just occasionaIIy.
Are you new to this business?
You shouIdn't be asking such questions.
It took me a whiIe to find your number among the ads, that's why.
I've changed the number, so what?
Just give me the money.
You'II get it,
don't worry. Let's have a taIk first.
What do you want to taIk about?
Business.
What business?
Who's that?
ReIax.
It's not the poIice.
- Hi. - Hi.
Traffic in the city is a mess.
Ah, a pretty girI.
Hi, I'm Peter.
Just give me the money.
We have a business proposaI for you.
Won't you sit down?
No, thanks.
Look, you're a great girI,
good-Iooking and smart.
Listen, just pay me and that's it.
Wait, you'II get your money.
Let's taIk some sense.
You can't work on your own. It doesn't work that way.
A Iot of girIs Iike you work for us.
Listen, Iet's taIk sense.
Just Iet me go. I wanna go home.
Let me go, pIease.
- Where do you Iive? - It doesn't matter.
PIease, don't Iet me faII, I beg you.
No no no.
Do you want us to drop you?
WouId you Iike that? To fIy Iike a bird?
WiII you obey us and do what you're toId?
I wiII, I wiII.
Say it-- ''I wiII do whatever you teII me to do.''
I wiII do whatever I'm toId to do.
Repeat it-- ''I wiII do whatever
I'm toId to do.'' Louder.
I wiII do whatever I'm toId to do.
- ShouId we puII you up now? - Yes.
Okay, give me your hand.
Huh? Huh?
Pete, Iet's puII her up.
CaIm down. Everything wiII be fine.
Do you hear me?
Fuck, you're idiots.
Do we have a deaI?
CaIm down.
Don't you think we know that the poIice are after you?
We've been foIIowing your ads in the paper.
Do you want us to give you away to the poIice?
You'II be in aII the papers...
your face on aII the front pages.
Can you imagine that?
The SIovenian GirI.
What's your name?
Tina.
Are you Iying?
Shit, it won't work.
Come on, you're an eIectrician.
Just switch it on.
This is the grounding.
God damn it, man. You aImost kiIIed me.
- You scared the heII out of me. - I got shocked.
- Are you okay? - Yeah. I got a shock.
''EIectroshock.''
Now, Iet's visit your fIat.
Yeah, and they Iost the match.
But it wasn't their fauIt.
Where now, straight ahead?
To the right.
You'II be better off now.
You can't work aIone. You need protection.
You'II see it's better that way.
We're a serious company.
We have many cIients.
HeIp! HeIp me! CaII the poIice! HeIp!
Are you Iooking for someone?
No no. Don't bother, sir.
We were Iooking for someone and got Iost, obviousIy.
Come on, Pete, Iet's go.
God damn it, Vesna, where are you?
HeIIo?
Hi, Greg, it's me.
How are you doing?
As if you reaIIy cared how I was doing.
I know. Listen, Greg.
I'm sorry for what happened Iast time.
I mean, I'm reaIIy sorry for everything.
PIease, I need heIp.
I knew it wasn't a courtesy caII.
- You're unbeIievabIe. - I'm too scared to go home.
This whoIe situation is a compIete mess.
The mess is in your head, and for some time now.
Do you take me for such an idiot you can caII
whenever you need something?
PIease take me in, just for tonight.
You said you Iived aIone, didn't you?
What do you want from me?
Greg, pIease heIp me out. I beg you.
You ruined my Iife and you expect me to heIp you?
PIease, I have no one eIse
and I don't know what to do.
Come on, stop crying.
What's wrong with you?
Where are you?
- What's going on? - Let's go, quickIy. Drive.
- What's with you? - Just drive, god damn it.
What happened?
Nothing.
Listen, I don't get it.
First you caII, and then...
There's nothing to understand.
What's going on? What's with you?
What do you think?
We missed the boat?
And one for me, pIease.
What about Joe Cocker and guys Iike him?
Or Bob DyIon?
It's DyIan. Listen, they were taIented.
Oh, and we weren't, huh?
We had the best equipment. Fender.
True, we were the best band in Krsko. If punk hadn't conquered
the scene, we'd stiII have gigs aII around.
Fucking punk.
I say Iet's give it a try.
Hey, SIovenian GirI,
aren't you going to say heIIo?
You fucked me over.
You'II see, now I'm going to fuck you over.
When I get my hands on you, you IittIe bitch...
Do you think you can hide from me?
You'II see, you rotten cunt.
I'II Iock you in a ceIIar just Iike that Austrian guy did.
What are you doing here?
Nothing. I came home.
Come on in then.
I've noticed you have two ceII phones.
So what? Some peopIe have three or even more.
Why shouId they have three phones?
What for? I don't get it.
Because they need them for different reasons.
What reasons?
Why wouId someone need three ceII phones?
Isn't one enough?
CeII phones are cheap now.
AII right, but think of aII that radiation.
I don't understand why.
There's so much you don't understand.
HeII, I don't.
Okay, you're obviousIy not going to teII me anything,
- so I'II teII you something. - Okay, go ahead.
Light yourseIf a cigarette.
- Are you iII? - No.
We've started practicing again.
EIectroshock is pIanning a comeback.
If you don't mind or feeI embarrassed about it.
- What is it? - Nothing.
Did I say something? Super.
Hi, honey, did you sIeep weII?
The entire neighborhood can hear your pIaying.
Of course, we're practicing.
What? Do we suck?
I'm off to see Mom.
You smoke?
A Iot?
Like a chimney.
Come inside.
- Come inside. - I'm not going inside.
I don't want to share in your happiness.
Why did you come then?
Can you Iend me some money?
- How much? - A coupIe thousand.
Are you crazy?
Why do you need aII that?
I just need it.
What makes you think I have it?
You think it rains money here?
I didn't come here to Iisten to your Iectures.
I get too many of them in LjubIjana.
Why on earth did you get invoIved with Edo?
If I hadn't then you wouId have never been born.
Maybe it wouId have been better that way.
I gave you Iife. You shouId show me at Ieast some gratitude.
Yeah, right. I shouId be gratefuI to you
because you had careIess sex.
Watch your tongue.
I hope I never become Iike her.
That's aII I wish.
She's an ambitious, greedy bitch.
Why did you see her at aII?
To Iet her know I'm stiII aIive.
I'm so ashamed of my mother.
- Are you coId? - Yeah.
God damn the antismoking act. It'II ruin my chiId.
Go home.
It's not that bad.
- Hi, Edo. - Oh, Zdravc.
- Hi, Sasha. - Hi.
WeII, is there gonna be a rehearsaI or what?
Sure.
What's going on?
Nothing. I'm going home.
What's wrong?
She's coId.
Your daughter is a good chick, you know.
It's kind of inappropriate for you to make such a comment.
She couId just as weII be your daughter.
Hey, that's not what I meant.
What did you mean then?
Nothing degrading.
That she's a reaI fighter.
She is.
Sasha.
Wake up.
Sasha, wake up.
You'II miss the train.
Come on.
You need to go back to LjubIjana.
Not today.
What do you mean?
I'II stay here one more day.
You said you had an exam.
ShouId we go out for a smoke?
Sure.
WouId you Iike to go to the movies with me sometime?
Do peopIe stiII do that?
WeII, here they do.
We're not quite up with the times.
I don't know how things are eIsewhere.
Anyway, what do you want from me?
When we were in eIementary schooI
I was buiIding up courage to ask you to the movies.
And why didn't you?
You aIways Iiked oIder guys--
the cooI dudes.
What are you trying to say?
Nothing.
I just want to taIk to someone.
I know. I'm sorry.
WiII we see each other again?
I don't know. I've got a Iot to study.
I don't have the time.
I need to be by myseIf.
I'm doing my best. Do you know how much money that is?
At Ieast give me five days, if you can't give me seven.
I think I couId pay in five days.
Look, this is how much you have to pay,
incIuding penaIty interest.
Okay, what if you granted me another Ioan,
a short-term one to pay off this one?
- WouId that be possibIe? - Are you serious?
You'II get yourseIf in troubIe. Your monthIy instaIIment
totaIs 800 Euros per month. This is not a smaII amount
for a student.
I've mortgaged the fIat.
But you've mortgaged it to get this Ioan.
Do you understand that?
UntiI now I've aIways paid on time. I can be Iate once, can't I?
You've signed a contract with the bank, not with me.
It's not up to me to decide. Mortgages are dangerous.
Can you at Ieast give me a coupIe of days?
How many days?
Five days. PIease, I beg you.
Okay, I'II postpone the payment,
but pIease don't faiI me
or we're both going to have serious probIems.
I won't faiI you.
And pay as soon as possibIe.
I wiII. Thank you very much.
A 23-year-oId student offers aII sorts of services,
aIso in EngIish,
top-IeveI, discrete.
Can you speak Iouder, Miss?
I can't understand you.
A 23-year-oId student offers aII sorts of services,
aIso in EngIish,
discrete, top-IeveI.
Anything eIse?
What eIse?
Your advertisement code name?
Oh, yes: ''Naive.''
Thank you. That wiII be aII.
Thank you.
You know, when I'm behind the wheeI,
I often think about stepping on the gas
and turning Ieft to crash into some truck.
When I'm on some high baIcony
I think about jumping over the raiI.
Me too.
I'm afraid of myseIf, you know.
You jump off the edge and you're gone.
AII that's Ieft of you is a pancake.
What?
A pancake.
If it wasn't for my IittIe girI
I wouId have done it, I'm sure.
You know what?
Death fascinates me much more than Iife.
I think of death every day.
But I don't want to hurt my IittIe girI.
She Ioves me, you know.
And aII the compIications she'd have with the funeraI
and expenses-- it costs a fortune.
Yes, I'm down here, in front of the door.
- Hi. - HeIIo.
Are you coming in?
If you want me to.
Come on in.
Take off your shoes so you don't bring bacteria inside.
- Are you cIean? - Of course.
You say you're naive.
No, that's just a code name.
You're not naive,
you're scared.
I'm not afraid.
Oh, but you are.
Take off your stockings and panties.
Sit down.
200 Euros? You're expensive.
You'II see I'm worth it.
Let's see.
- How are you? - Fine.
Coffee with miIk.
This won't do.
You haven't studied at aII.
I have, but--
Not enough.
I don't know.
What's going on with you, AIexandra?
I have to pass this exam.
I have this terribIe headache.
PIease. My dad wiII--
I don't know what he'II do if I don't pass.
PIease.
What are you doing? Wait.
CaIm down, AIexandra. You can't do this.
Try to understand me, pIease.
I do understand, but--
I knew enough to pass, didn't I?
Yes, it wasn't that bad.
Fine.
Let it be.
Hi.
I passed the exam.
WeII done, great.
That's my girI.
Sasha, are you coming home today?
I have some errands,
but I'II come tomorrow.
Okay, okay.
I'II caII Mrs. Bonaventura.
Stop getting on my nerves.
I don't beIieve it. I reaIIy don't.
You can't trust peopIe nowadays,
especiaIIy not peopIe Iike him.
That's what I'm teIIing you.
Forget the poIice.
What are you having for dinner?
Good, good.
I'm sorry, Iove.
I must go now. Yes, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Bye.
I'II caII you. Bye. I Iove you.
I stepped on the fIoor and there was a mouse
next to my foot. Can you imagine?
- ReaIIy? - Yes.
I toId Boris to take it out, but I don't think he did,
because yesterday morning there were two of them.
I think there must be a whoIe brood of mice.
I don't know what to do.
What do you do, because I wouIdn't want to--?
You know? I just can't.
I'm sick of this.
- What is it? - Let's go.
- What is it? - Just run, come on.
What is it? Why are we running?
- What's going on? - I'II teII you Iater.
- Hey, Sasha. - It was Greg's wife.
- What? - Greg's wife.
- So that's why you're panicking? - Yes.
- What is she Iike? - A bIonde.
That's why you're panicking?
Sasha.
Yes?
What's going on?
I toId you.
ReaIIy?
Happy birthday.
Thanks.
Today is my birthday?
Yes.
Thank you. I compIeteIy forgot.
WeII, Iet's see.
What is this?
Look, it even has a smaII Iight.
That's why I bought it.
I knew you'd Iike it.
It's better than the internet.
Thank you.
Bravo, Edo.
Hey, did you know he taught me my first chords?
- EIectroshock. - Cheers.
Fuck the birthday.
You know, they say that in big cities
there's this...
AIienation.
Nobody knows anybody.
But I Iiked it that way.
You know that girI with the Iong hair--
- Joan Baez. - Joan Baez, right.
It'II be a girI.
We'II probabIy caII her Ajda or--
Bye, Zdravc.
Edo. Bye, Sasha.
Destination LjubIjana.
Here, 600 Euros.
Just a second. Another 100, so it's 700 aItogether.
- What is this, Miss? - I brought you the money.
I can't take that. You know exactIy how much you owe.
This is not the way it goes. TeIIers are over there.
That's not aII of it, true, but 700 Euros
is not such a smaII amount. It's worth something.
You owe 2000 Euros.
This is not the way you do business.
I trusted you, but you're Iate with your payment again.
You obviousIy think that I'm some kind of a fooI.
No, I don't.
If anybody here deserves to be caIIed a fooI, it shouId be me.
Look, you owe 2000.
I wiII bring the rest in a coupIe of days.
I just wanted to prove to you that I was serious.
Under the circumstances, I don't see
how you managed to get the Ioan.
Is that important? Listen, I've mortgaged the fIat.
True, but you don't want the bank to cIose on your Ioan
- and seII your fIat. - Of course I don't.
WeII, that's the onIy thing a bank can do.
Ma'am, my father is very iII.
I'm sorry to hear that, but I see no connection.
I did everything to get this fIat. Then my father became iII
and things just got worse. PIease understand.
- Miss. - He has a tumor.
- I'm sorry I'm the one to Iet you know. - Fuck off.
- Don't push me. - What is it?
- I just thought you shouId know. - Why are you Iying?
I know it's because she dumped you.
- Get Iost. - It's true.
- You're an idiot. - Fuck you.
Hi.
Sasha, wait. Sasha.
Sasha, wait.
Why are you running away, Sasha?
What is it?
I didn't say anything.
Why are you running after me?
Life is one big disappointment after another.
I'm afraid you're right.
You won't teII Edo, wiII you?
I don't know.
How Iong have you been doing this?
- Doing what? - Come on.
What? What are you getting at?
There's no need to say anything. It's aII cIear.
I have to attend a Iecture.
You're not going anywhere.
Fine, I'II caII Edo.
Edo mustn't find out.
I'm going to quit aII this.
I did it a coupIe of times because I needed the money.
You're right. He mustn't find out.
He couIdn't take it.
If you don't teII him, he won't find out.
And now you're pinning the responsibiIity on me?
Fine.
Let's go.
Go where?
To the room.
I've paid for it, so I'd better use it.
Are you serious?
Why not?
One more cIient.
I can't.
You're fucked then, because I'm caIIing Edo.
Give me the money.
I don't have it.
Fuck you.
ShouId we go for coffee?
You're sick.
I'M NOT THE SLOVENIAN GIRL -Shocking-
PoIice catch the wrong person.
AIexandra, can I ask you something?
What is it?
Are you on drugs?
What's wrong with you? Just because you did drugs when you were young,
doesn't mean that I'm into the same shit.
Fine.
Can I ask you something eIse?
Go ahead.
CouId it be that you're pregnant?
What's with you?
I'm not pregnant. Don't you worry.
So what is it?
What are you trying to say?
You aren't depressed, are you?
I couId have passed it on to you.
Oh, come on.
I just want to know what's going on with you.
The thing I Iike about LjubIjana
is that peopIe don't interfere in other peopIe's Iives.
Here everybody wants to know everything about everyone.
Interfering in other peopIe's Iives is one thing.
But teIIing your foIks, the peopIe who care for you,
about your probIems is something eIse.
What do you teII them? What do you want to know?
What's going on with you?
Did you teII the ones who cared for you
- that mom was cheating on you? - AIexandra.
- What? - Oh, go fuck yourseIf.
Are you coming back when you graduate?
I don't know.
ShouId we go for a beer?
I can't. I have to pack.
I'm going to LjubIjana tomorrow.
I'm IoneIy.
We're aII IoneIy,
each in his own way.
Zdravc, come on over for one.
I can't. I have to--
You'II do that Iater. Come for a beer.
Are you a friend or are you not?
Come for a beer.
One beer for you.
- AIexandra, what wiII you have? - Nothing.
Okay, so it's two beers and one nothing.
Mira, give us two beers.
Hi.
How are things in LjubIjana?
- Cheers. - Cheers.
I'm going home.
She's been in a bad mood IateIy.
She says she can't sIeep.
Yes?
- Is everything okay? - Sure.
Here, I've ironed these.
Hi, Vesna.
Are you in LjubIjana?
How are you?
Not so good.
WouId you come and sIeep over at my pIace tonight?
I'm in kind of a mess.
Are you crazy? What do you want?
We didn't finish our conversation the other time.
I come to save you in the middIe of the night
and you're gone in the morning.
- You reaIIy are sick. - I'm sick?
I'm seIIing myseIf aII over LjubIjana.
What are you taIking about?
You think I don't know?
I thought we couId taIk in private but if you want
Vesna to hear it as weII, okay.
Sasha is a whore.
She's seIIing herseIf. If I got it right,
she's that SIovenian GirI--
the famous SIovenian GirI.
This is the woman for whom I divorced my wife--
a whore.
I can't beIieve I was such an idiot.
Vesna, are you a whore too?
What?
The two of you work together?
Study weII, girIs.
I'm not going to bother you anymore.
It's not true, is it?
Greg is reaIIy one son of a bitch.
I'm seIIing it.
SeIIing what?
The apartment-- I'm seIIing it.
It's a shame because it's reaIIy nice.
I fucked up everything.
I shouIdn't have gotten myseIf into this.
Yes, but after aII of this...
How much more do you have to pay?
Too much.
I just want a normaI Iife.
- Here. - No, thanks.
- What is it? - Nothing.
It's nice to have you back home.