Simon is a man made of quiet habits and unspoken questions. His life revolves around small rituals — reading late into the night, cataloguing other people’s words in the hope that one day they might explain his own. When he finds an anonymous book wrapped in brown paper in the trash behind a shop, he opens more than a story — he opens the past. A series of events begin to unfold, binding him to a librarian named Norma Jean and to the ghosts of lives neither of them fully understand.

Their worlds circle each other through longing, guilt, and the strange weight of coincidence. In Simon’s obsession with the mysterious book and Norma Jean’s struggle against her predatory employer, two lost people stumble toward connection — or self-destruction. Between them lies the question of what a person becomes when their history is borrowed, rewritten, or erased entirely.

Bookman is a darkly intimate story about obsession, memory, and redemption — about the way stories choose us as much as we choose them. With the lyricism of literary fiction and the tension of a psychological mystery, it explores the fragile boundaries between imagination and reality, past and present, love and delusion.

Both tender and unsettling, it unfolds in dim apartments, snow-lit libraries, and the quiet corridors of the human mind — a place where truth is a page that refuses to stay still.