Grand Hotel Europa

While documenting for a book on mass tourism, a writer named Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer suffers a painful emotional breakup and decides to drop everything to put his memories in order. The place he chooses for his retirement is the Grand Hotel Europa, an establishment with an illustrious past and an uncertain future inhabited by a cast of bizarre characters. The author sets himself the task of reconstructing in writing his explosive relationship with Clío, an Italian art historian with an audacious theory about Caravaggio's latest painting, and as he advances in his task his fascination with the hotel's mysteries increases. His conversations with the other guests, meanwhile, lead him to reflect on the decline of the Old Continent.