Everything That Happened at the Hotel

“What Happened at the Hotel” is not exactly a detective story. Yes, there’s a mysterious disappearance, an investigation, clues and witnesses. But that isn’t the main thing. Masha Traub wrote a novel about people: about their fates and relationships; about how we often need time to understand what really matters and what doesn’t—and to learn to forgive even when it seems impossible. So, on the shore of a bay, surrounded by dunes and the Baltic nature of breathtaking beauty, stands a hotel where the incident took place: one of the guests has disappeared. The senior investigator Ivan Otradny arrives to look into the case. Ivan is far from being a stranger here—his life is closely tied to the hotel. And the fact that it’s precisely him who must find out what happened in the hotel is by no means accidental.