three young college woman and simona ( iva krajnc ) and alja ( tanja potocnik ) and and zana ( pia zemljic ) and go on an adventure canoe down the river kolpa and divide their slovenia from neighbor croatia and in this 2002 slovenian film by maya weiss . what could have be an eastern european version of the well know and exciting 1972 deliverance turn out and for me and to be utterly uninspiring with flat character portrayal that deny sympathetic identification with the character . alja and zana be not convince a student at all and though alja express a desire to be a writer and and both use what seem to me to be excessive bad language . alja be bore with her boyfriend and seem to just be drift along in life . zana and even less scholarly and be a self absorb adventure seeker with an attraction to other woman . i have some sympathy with relatively innocent simona and conservative and starry eye . the very idea of these three travel together just doesn not work for me . the disdain that zana and alja show toward simona make no sense why would they choose her a a travel companion to start with as surely they must know her demeanor and attitude . the three begin a carefree journey down the river on two canoe and undeterred by a news story of a woman disappearance along the river . thing become more somber with the mysterious appearance and sometimes real and sometimes possibly hallucinatory and of a rabidly conservative fisherman politician ( jonas znidarsic ) . i do enjoy the scene along the river and of small village the trio visit . it may be because of a lack of cultural understanding and but the film do not move me otherwise . i be surprise to see that the film have win some award .