Hotel Living -XLD

What is it about some guys? Stathis is quick, has looks, luck, he even has a good punch. And yet he burns out fast. Born and raised in a Greek fishing village, Stathis Rakis immigrates to the U.S. and becomes a high-flier at a powerful white-collar firm. When he falls for an emotionally unavailable eco-communist from New England, his work and personal choices clash. Rejected and rootless—too educated to be a Greek fisherman, too Greek to be a typical executive—Stathis works around the world and lives in hotels. Work promotions are followed by longings, intoxication, and numbness while he forges bonds with other fleeting people, such as war correspondents, hyper-reality media founders, and daughters of movie stars. Roaming through bohemian and corporate parlors, characters get damaged not as a result of evil, but as the inevitable byproduct of being caught in a race that brings out the worst in them. "Hotel Living" is a gripping story of the ups and downs in a man's life in an era where personal downfall is a mirror image of global deterioration; a misinterpretation of the American dream during our morally and economically chaotic recent past.