Hotel by the River
A contemplative, melancholic meditation on mortality, estrangement, and fleeting human connection set in a liminal hotel space.
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
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