A writer takes residence in the stately but decaying Grand Hotel Europa in order to contemplate where things went wrong with Cleo - an art historian and the love of his life. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of the Grand Hotel Europa and the memorably eccentric characters who inhabit it, all of whom seem to come from a more elegant time. All the while, globalization is making its unmistakable claim on even this place, where a sense of lost glory hangs sulkily in the air.
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