The third film in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy tells
the story of Melanie, an overweight 13-year-old, and her first
love. While her mother, Teresa, travels to Kenya
(Paradise: Love), and her aunt
(Paradise: Faith) does missionary work
for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer vacation with
other adolescents in a strictly run diet camp in the Austrian
countryside. Between sports activities and nutritional counseling,
pillow fights and her first cigarettes, she falls in love with the
camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. She loves him with the
unconditionality of first love, and tries in total innocence to
seduce him. The doctor struggles against the guilt of this love,
aware of its impossibility. Melanie had imagined her paradise
differently.