In a half-board hotel, behind the closed doors of discreet confidentiality, its temporary occupants, passing lovers, driven away from the normality of their daily lives, feel that for a moment they can become someone else. Without a name, without identity, without origin, they can be for a few hours what society with its countless conventions forbids them to be: absolutely and uncompromisingly free.

"But how free is someone really when they shed their clothes, roles, defenses, and securities that make up their social identity? When they remain mercilessly naked before another exposed person and introduce themselves with the only name nature gave them, that of raw desire?" wonders the author in the introductory note of the edition. The heroes of Hotel Amour bring with them desires, fantasies, fears, inhibitions, and unspoken expectations, presented with humor, sensitivity, and lively music.