Falso nocturno

A storm in France forces the cancellation of a flight from Buenos Aires to Paris, leaving a group of passengers stranded in a modernist hotel that seems to belong to another era. Among them is Charo Almeida, an Argentine actress and playwright living in Europe. Instead of informing her family, who believe she is still traveling, she decides to remain incognito a few kilometers from home. What follows is the diary of a voluntary disappearance: the chronicle of someone who has placed herself outside the frame to meditate, from the luxurious and anachronistic retreat of the hotel, on what she cannot think about in motion. Motherhood. Her partner. Returning or not returning. Grieving for her mother. However, the hotel, with its carved wooden peacock, its Tiffany lamps, its gnome-eared buttons, and the Aleister Crowley mask presiding over the facade, takes on a life of its own that defies all logic and distracts Charo from her purpose. In the dreamlike haze where time loses its linearity, she strikes up a conversation with a very peculiar old man. And he can't help but see literature everywhere.