But when a film-history student comes to interview Claude Ballard about The Electric Hotel -- the lost masterpiece that bankrupted him and ended the career of his muse, Sabine Montrose -- the past comes surging back. In his run-down hotel suite, the ravages of the past are waiting to be excavated: celluloid fragments and reels in desperate need of restoration, and Claude's memories of the woman who inspired and beguiled him.
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