Valentine, Georgia, Nadia, Arystarkh and Oleksandr have been selling books at the used book market in Kiev for decades. Each of them has their own specialization: mathematics, philosophy, fashion, world literature and engineering. They spend their days saving old books, haggling for a better price and amusing regular and new customers with jokes and stories. One day, they find out that the land where they sell second-hand books has been sold. In a year the old market will be closed and a new shopping center will be built. It is a symbolic moment showing the transition from one civilization to another, the twilight of the Gutenberg era and the beginning of the Internet age.
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Tetiana Hanzha
› Graduate of literary studies at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy › Translator for Urban Studies and Mistosite journals › She is interested in urban planning. › “Books versus asphalt” is her debut feature-length documentary