Through verité portraits gathered over 5 years, HOME IS A HOTEL is an intimate cinematic journey of San Franciscans finding hope and healing in the liminal spaces of their respective 80 square foot rooms -- an SRO (single room occupancy). The film weaves together the stories of CHRISTINA, a Chinese immigrant single mother supporting her aging parents, ESTHER, a blind Latina librettist fighting harassment and eviction, SUNBEAR & AMY, a former couple in recovery sharing a room to co-parent their son, SYLVESTER, a graffiti artist ambivalent about painting murals for the tech companies pricing him out of his neighborhood, and JACKIE a mom on a quest to find her runaway daughter while raising a toddler.
