At The Hotel is a six-episode miniseries created, co-written, and produced by Ken Finkleman, which aired on CBC Television in 2006.
At first glance, the story appears to be a series of unconnected vignettes, woven against a mystery in the past which may be the reason behind a murder in the present day.
Each episode opens with a short flashback to that critical night during a party back in 1961, during which a nameless chambermaid died.
In the fifth episode, the audience discovers that everything they have just been told may lie solely in the imagination of a writer who is also a character in the miniseries.
A writer arrives at the Chateau Rousseau, an illustrious Montreal hotel known for its favourable treatment of struggling artists.
He has been hired by Lucy Knowlton, the alcoholic owner of the hotel, to research and write a book about its history.
It may also be related to an attempt by Jacob Knowlton to have his sister Lucy murdered, leaving him with sole ownership of the hotel.
A young girl whose mother dies at the hotel successfully covers up the death by hiring another guest as her "father."
With that, the story plunges back into other guest vignettes, while continuing to follow Jenny and the other hotel staff.
The story told by the miniseries ends when the writer receives an envelope with the torn-up bar bill inside.