Several different dramas unfold in a luxury hotel in 1930s Berlin. Ruined aristocrat John Barrymore. Terminally ill clerk Lionel Barrymore. Ruthless tycoon Wallace Beery. Scheming stenographer Joan Crawford. Disillusioned ballerina Greta Garbo, who mutters the immortal line, "I want to be alone." Luckily she isn't, as the lives of the Grand Hotel's patrons intersect and weave a wonderfully entertaining web of drama.