Paradise: Hope

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl s Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Hope tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ( Paradise: Love ) and her aunt does missionary work ( Paradise: Faith ), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.