An ageing poet who keeps having nightmares of his own death, invites his two estranged sons to meet him at a hotel by the snowy Han river. While he waits for their arrival he meets two women, also staying at the hotel. The lives of these two groups casually intersect as the poet moves between them.

Shot in stunning black and white with an unusually handheld camera, Hong Sangsoo's Hotel by the River is a powerful meditation on family and death and one of the most profoundly moving films in his entire oeuvre.