Film director Percy Adlon is the great-grandson of Lorenz Adlon and made a documentary about the hotel Adlon. Los Angeles, May 1945, World War II is over. A young German-American by the name of Louis Adlon Jr.is conscripted into the army. Newspaper magnate William R. Hearst sends him to devastated Berlin to serve as overseas correspondent.. There is no better place to find information than in the world famous hotel Adlon.