Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.

When reclusive rare-book collector Adam Diehl is found dead in his home, Adam's sister Meghan and her lover Will, a convicted literary forger, begin receiving threatening letters from someone who knows secrets about Adam's death and Will's past.

Presents the story of the man who founded the National Yiddish Book Center, and describes the worldwide effort he currently leads to collect unwanted Yiddish books and save the Yiddish language from extinction.