Set in a mansion in Istanbul that has been converted into a fourteen-room hotel, Kavur’s film focuses on the manager of the establishment, the tormented Zebercet. What appears to be a straightforward narrative turns inward, however, at its midpoint, compelling us to reconsider the meaning of all that has come before in the narrative: it becomes clear that the woman we have seen in the film’s first shot is merely the memory of a real visitor—or perhaps a phantom—that haunts the hotel’s troubled proprietor.