Day after day, Carl Kollhoff stands in the back room of a bookshop and carefully wraps books in paper to deliver them to regular customers in the city. Books are the quiet older man's greatest happiness. On one of his errands, nine-year-old Schascha follows in his footsteps. Schascha quickly wins the hearts of Carl's regular customers and not only upsets their lives, but also encourages Carl to break out of his own world.