Supportive of and involved in the film is the art-performance group Zirkus Loko-Motiv with friends; artists, actors and musicians along with twenty villagers, their cars, tractors and pets made this film during two summers on the island of Gotland.
Hotel Esplanad in the village of Etelhem is no more. Etelhem at Gotland, Sweden is situated in the very heart of the island. Today you find the church from the 12th century, the pottery of 1889, and som 144 inhabitants in Etelhem.
The feel/image of the film "Hotel Esplanad" is a worn out environment, painted like in a delirium, where the story's dramatis personae are taking place. On the hotel's ground floor, an autocratic psychoanalyst runs her notorious practice. All villagers have been her clients. In conspiracy with the village priest, the analyst plays a high occult game with the villagers like bet in a play. However, there are villagers who do not agree to follow the unwritten laws that emerged and a timeless dramatic story full of revenge, love, murder and cheap booze unfolds. Events shaking up the ossified patterns and breaks new ground all the way out of the village depopulated swamp.