Humdrum Theatre

In 1949, Helene Hanff, a New York-based writer, contacts an antiquarian bookshop in London - Marks & Co. - for help aquiring some volumes she wants for her collection.

Manager Frank Doel replies to her letter. Thus begins one of literature's great love affairs.

For twenty years Hanff and the staff of the shop exchange letters; life-long friendships develop and Hanff promises, when times get easier, that she'ss cross the Atlantic to pay a visit...