Aleksandra is desperate to escape the small industrial town where she grew up and move to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and to fund her studies and the expensive apartment she is buying there she advertises her services as a prostitute in the classified ads. This is the year that it is Slovenia’s turn at the European Presidency so the city is full of visiting politicians and businessmen, prime candidates for her services. One such rather rotund gentleman has the misfortune to die in flagrante and in a panic Aleksandra dashes from the scene before robbing him. The police investigating the death are anxious to trace her, as are two pimps that she has managed to shake off by going freelance.
Add to the mix a vengeful spurned boyfriend, a rather rigid college professor who she must convince to let her re-sit an important exam, an inflexible Bank hassling her for late mortgage payments, plus all the secrets and lies that she must spin to maintain her life.
R.T.V. It makes for a well-paced thriller that never fails to engage you even when it changes course towards the end without much warning and Aleksandra bowing under the weight of all the pressure returns to her father’s home thinking its not so bad after all. Pity in a way that it is being marketed as a Foreign Art House Movie as it is a very accessible film and deserves a wider audience than the one it will reach.
Genres: drama, international