A London library with a monumental collection of rare photographs is faced with extinction. Amongst its ten million pictures are images telling extraordinary stories of the past, intimate tales which are both erotic and full of pain. The custodians of these pictures are an eccentric collection of librarians whose stoical, arcane knowledge is in conflict with a new management determined to destroy their world forever.
Within the main plot are two life stories, each revealed and illustrated by a sequence of photographs, gathered from all over the collection. These sequences are utterly captivating and very beautiful, and demonstrate the writer/director's fascination for the still image – a momentary record of a person's life that is captured within a photograph, and how with images from other sources and from other times, their story will begin to unfold before our eyes. Stories that would otherwise have been lost, or never known, were it not for a handful of seemingly random photographs that have found their way into the library's vast collection.
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