The publishers who still read and have always felt drawn to literature are gradually and almost imperceptibly fading away. With Samuel Riba, known as Riba, an era is coming to an end. His life was literature; his biography consisted of books. This obsessive, aging man, recently freed from alcohol, in Barcelona is a melancholic victim of his own literary madness: he dreams of Dublin, where he wants to celebrate Bloomsday, June 16, the day that has entered world literature with James Joyce. His novel Ulysses has become the quintessential Dublin novel. For Riba, the sympathetic relative of Leopold Bloom, Ulysses is the shining star in the Gutenberg galaxy. A tragicomic publisher imagines his end, the burial of books and literature in the digital age, and finds a life upon arriving in Dublin.