In a forgotten corner of Thailand, we are plunged deep into the heart of an abandoned wooden palace, a mysterious place suffused with silence and sorrow, where the real and the magical run intertwined…

Lured by thousands of nightclubs, host/hostess bars, and love-hotels near Tokyo’s Shinjuku’s station, business people descend from their offices in high speed elevators, only to rise up again in other elevators in other buildings, seeking comfort, fantasy and escape. Photographer Xavier Comas provides an almost voyeuristic view of these moments of vertical transit.