Set in the spring of 1999, Dominik Mencej’s magic realist road movie (an homage to Dennis Hopper’s classic Easy Rider) revolves around best friends and biker wannabes Tomaž and Anton. They drive around their village on mopeds and dream of escape. Tomaž has the reputation of a reliable, honest hard worker, while Anton is more rebellious, and constantly in trouble. They decide to transform their motorbikes into choppers and take a weekend trip to Ljubljana to visit Anton’s girlfriend. Along the way they pick up a runaway nun and encounter a wise old biker, with whom they unexpectedly travel to the coast and onward to Croatia—perhaps all the way to Međugorje, a mysterious, magical place where miracles are rumoured to happen. By turns amusing, romantic, and offbeat, Riders turns out to be the long, strange trip of a lifetime.