A controlling optician meets a mild librarian to enact secret fantasies as Oscar-winning movie stars and Olympic champions; a socially inept teacher dreams of becoming a deputy head; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic has set up a business in a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are systematically and mysteriously vandalised, one of the greatest love affairs the world has ever known begins to stir in the library.
A controlling optician meets a gentle librarian to enact secret fantasies as famous movie stars and Olympic champions; an awkward teacher yearns to become deputy headmaster; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic runs a business from a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are vandalized, one of the greatest love stories ever told begins in the library.