The action takes place in a hotel – an (un-)temporary, ephemeral and crime-prone place. Into this mysterious space the authors write the convention of a detective story, subjecting the motif of a woman-victim to a perverse analysis. “Hotel H.****” is a performance inspired by, among others, the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, the paintings of Edward Hopper and the work of Peter Handke. In it, the creators engage in a dialogue with the infamous visual legacy of male gaze, which objectifies, sec*ualises and/or uses women as a tool for the construction of male characters’ superiority. As a result, the female body portrayed through the male gaze means more to viewers than the actual actions, goals and adventures of the female characters. In the performance “Hotel H.****”, the authors tackle this theme with a sense of humour, playing with form and constant deconstruction. The spectator is led from room to room to browse through the metamorphoses of the infinite roles carried out by the four female performers: detectives, victimes, murderers…