Set in the last bookshop in the world, four strangers come together to form an unimaginable bond. Their one goal, to encourage society to start reading again, is made more difficult by a new law proposed by the government to ban the production and trade of 'unnecessary' paperbacks. <br>A worldwide power cut creates an opportunity to return to a simplistic, technology-free way of life and allowing the bookshop to flourish. <br>But what happens when the electricity is turned back on? And what does this mean for the future of the written word?