12-year-old Karli moves to Bad Gastein in the Alps where his parents are restoring their own hotel. Whilst exploring the hotel, Karli discovers that he can make one of the old lifts stop on a mezzanine floor where the hotel’s operations are in full swing ... but it’s still 1938 there! He befriends the bright Jewish girl Hannah, who is staying at the hotel with her father, and the young shoeshine boy Georg. The three of them become a gang. When Georg is wrongly accused of theft, his new friends want to help him and find the real crook. The three subsequently discover that strange things are going on in the hotel.
photo © S. Dosta l/ Kevin Lee / Amour Fou Vienna & Luxembourg