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Allegory on several levels pervades this romantic drama, filmed in Serbia during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s. In the story, Lisa (Katarina Zutic) is a tremendously sexy and brainy college student is in the midst of her preparations for her math finals, and is, as usual, playing complicated games with turtles, each bearing a different number painted on its plastron. When her hands become mysteriously stained with blue, her quest to find out how that happened leads her to the laboratory of a man (Lazar Ristovski) who has been searching for the formula for a blue used in ancient icons. He is such a refreshing change from her regular boyfriend, a wealthy clothes-hound without much in the brains department, that the two of them embark on a brief seaside fling.