Formule 1 hotels are ultra-economical establishments, commonplace in suburban areas: a low-cost way of "inhabiting" the world. Behind the room doors, the uniformity of the space, reduced to the strict functional minimum, exposes the tension inherent in every human life: sedentariness and nomadism, excess and restraint, routine and survival. While Chaumière's main character is a formatted hotel, its residents are not so easily boxed in. They use, divert and malfunction this dream of a sleeping machine.