1980s. The city archive. A story spanning decades in documents, rows upon rows of bound volumes, silence and clarity. Is there a safer and calmer place in the world? But this slowness is only visible! The author will tell you about everything hidden from the eyes of visitors—love and betrayal, careerism and modesty, the loneliness and the burden of the archivists’ family life—and even about spies who steal documents, and about the death of one of the heroes!