A magician passing through is looking for a room - and ends up in a hotel that turns out to be a bizarre nightmare. An old man lies under his bed, the cleaner climbs out of the cupboard, a brass band marches out of the walls. The building is an endless labyrinth of rules, rituals and absurd encounters. Every attempt to leave it fails. Instead, the magician is drawn deeper into a world that follows no logic - and meets a crowd of strange inhabitants who have long since come to terms with their existence. What is this hotel? A dream? A prison? Or a strange allegory of our present?