Umberto Eco’s private library was a world apart: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 ancient and rare books. After his death, the family granted access to the library to director Davide Ferrario, who had worked with Eco in 2015, one year before the writer’s death, for a video-installation at the Art Biennale of Venice.

Slowly, from the very simple idea of filming the library before it was given to the Italian State and therefore moved from its original place, a project was born to make a feature documentary: not only to describe an extraordinary location, but also to explain Eco’s idea and feeling of the library as „memory of the world”.