Alia Mohammed Baqer was the chief librarian of Basra's Central Library in Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has remained a meeting place for book lovers. But then war broke out, and Alia feared that the library would be destroyed and the city would lose its precious cultural heritage. This true story is about the courage of a woman who was determined to save thirty thousand books from an inevitable disaster. It reminds us that the love of literature and respect for knowledge know no bounds or limits.