Hotel Salvation in Varanasi, India, is where people go to spend their last days. After having a nightmare, 77-year-old Daya begins to believe that he will soon die. He leaves on a journey with his son Rajiv to greet death in Varanasi. Waiting for his life to end, Daya meets others who are preparing for death, and his life takes an unexpected course. Meanwhile, Rajiv starts to get impatient and often thinks about his family and the work he left behind in the city in order to accompany his father. The title Hotel Salvation seems to point to the weightier topics of the afterlife and nirvana. However, in the film, the themes of death and salvation are not metaphysical; they are shown through the relationships that the characters experience within the simple reality of life. In other words, they are not vague concepts; they are things that exist in our daily lives and in the humane encounters we have as we go through it. They can even exist in a place where people prepare for death. Hotel Salvation is a film that shows the irony of life moving steadily toward its final conclusion. (HONG Soin)