In a cheap roadside hotel located on the edge of the desert, fate brings together desperate people: a young waitress who dreamed of becoming a singer in Las Vegas; a failed postman who decided to start over from scratch; a sheriff woman tired of loneliness and her husband’s betrayals; a young journalist who fled his hometown after learning about his girlfriend’s pregnancy; an elderly actress who misses bygone times...But a dusty hotel is not the best place to hide from your problems. Strange things happen to the guests: a waitress sees doors to another world, an elderly actress witnesses a crime, a failed postman inherits the diary of a crazy father who considered himself an alchemist, and a former journalist finds a dead man with a broken skull in piles of garbage. To understand what is happening, the manager of the ill-fated hotel calls the female sheriff, whom he has had his eye on for a long time...