This film develops between the history of the Service of Itinerant Libraries of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which founded the project in 1958, and the activity of these Itinerant Libraries today, managed by the Public Libraries Network.

40 years ago, what would it be like to arrive in this country with books to borrow? Who was waiting for them? Who were they waiting for? And today, how does this trip happen?