Paradise: Hope

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Ulrich Seidl

Status Released

Release Date 2013-02-22

Storyline

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

"Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... lies the greatest danger of all."