In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth strange clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece Only Perseus a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves with a strange childhood holds the answer to the mysteryand it has something to do with beautiful longhaired women in black One night his group breaks into the house of one such creature Filled with lowkey humor and suspense Medusa unfolds in a simple and tantalizing way