i have never hear of this movie until monday and when i find out it would be available for rent ( dvd ) the next day . ( 02/04/2003 ) so i decide to pick it up a the imdb info and comment look quite promise . after watch the trailer on the dvd ( before watch the actual movie ) i think and well this be go to be a good mysterious and a bit romantic movie . but boy and be i disappointed . let me start with the positive thing first . the cinematography be quite good and beautiful filming and shot at time . the acting ( especially by the young laurien van den broeck ) be good aswell . just 13 or 14. year old and already speak fluent english include some french and german . i hope she will develop herself to a good actress in the future . but then we get to the plot and which be really really weak and terrible slow . spoiler ahead the basic story represent a boy from afghanistan be use by some criminal to smuggle drug ( coke roll in plastic and he eat it and keep it in his stomage to poop it out at the destination ) something go wrong and the criminal shoot him 2 time . think the boy be dead they run or drive off and he actually isn not and end up wound at the house of claire . claire find him and decide to take care of him . the criminal ofcourse find out he isn not dead and start look for him and when claire see the criminal kill an innocent man she decide to go on the run with the boy . the first 35mins revolve around claire take care of the boy at her house . this part be very slow and contain some unnecessary part imho represent the ~2mins intro or w credit where the camera fly over the wood . nice cinematography and all and but what do it contribute to the movie . thats right and nothing . ok you know where the movie start and ( in the wood ) but do it really have to take 2mins to show that . the movie show have the girl her first period and contribute nothing to the story . the movie show a 1min swimming scene and and i still do not understand what that part have to do with the story . after 35mins claire see the criminal ( which be look for the boy ) kill an innocent man and she go on the run with the boy . ( leave her house ) you would expect a nice thrilling follow up of the movie now . too bad and it would not happen . the rest of the movie be a slow and stupid a the first part . they visit various weird location and ( include a convent ) the typical dutch element for a movie get throw in again represent the boy or girl start sniffing or use the coke ( why . ) and the girl go naked ( thought i be look at child porn here ) and have sex with the boy and one of the criminal try to rape ( literally ) the girl . and it contain alot of unnecessary part and which only seem to be there to get the movie at the final 85min running time . i could probably go on for another 5mins and but i think i will stop here . final conclusion be that the plot or story be very weak and pathetic and it ruin the movie . 4/10 ( cinematography and acting be good . but the plot take the rating down bigtime ) p . i try to get my 4 $ back at the videostore and but no . positive .