A plane crash. A desert island. Twenty women. A protagonist who has completely forgotten her previous life. And the most important question: will they survive? While some of the women are firmly convinced that they will soon be rescued from the island, the others are primarily interested in using gender-neutral language, seeking consensus and generally building a new, just society. What this society might look like is negotiated in a permanent exchange among themselves. Sophie wants to build a menstruation hut, Aurelia considers that to be cultural appropriation, Bente wants to proclaim Lesbos, Else wants to establish a matriarchy, while Noëlla wants to try communism. Nadja misses her company, Anne finds everything annoying, Betty doesn't understand anything and just wants to go home, and Nykki wants one thing above all else: sex. The protagonist Cara, on the other hand, can't even remember her own name, let alone feminist theory. In her debut novel Medusa in Paradise, Laura Melina Berling creates a Robinsonade in which paradise and dystopia lie very close together. With a great deal of humour and ease, she succeeds in telling of social trench warfare and the eternal struggle with the question: How do we want to live?