The diary of the former owner of the abandoned Paragon Hotel smelled of gold. It was he who suggested Frank Balenger and his friends the way to the cache with the treasures of a long-dead gangster. Rotten floors caved in underfoot, ceilings collapsed on heads, hordes of rats and mutant cats complemented the hellish landscape of the dilapidated building. But it was not this and not even the meeting with the bandits following the trail that turned out to be the most terrible. The dark secret of past decades, the suicides of guests and the hotel owner himself, the disappearance of young and beautiful women, now discovered in the form of mummified corpses, and also the incessant shotgun of a maniac - all this is intertwined into a deadly web of eight hours of horror that befell the treasure hunters... .