...This Hotel is nowhere except that it does face the sea. Each room is a memory, a real story, a flash, a moment that happened in some place like this one, or maybe that happened even here, in cities like this one; it's the story of people who spend their lives evading or can at least dream of the possibility of doing so when necessary, people who spend their lives breathing in the smell of the sea...

Alex Majoli in "Hotel Marinum"