As a child, my father took me every week to check out books. Forty years later, I continue that ritual with my daughter: books for her, books for me. Throughout my life, libraries have become refuges: in Helsinki, Stockholm, Paris, Barcelona, Granada… They have always been my second home.

Paper Shelters is a film about encounters with people who have lived their lives in libraries. Not from a place of nostalgia, but from the emotion, humor, and poetic resistance that surrounds these spaces and those who inhabit them.

During filming, the story transformed into a choral symphony about intimacy: voices whispering dreams, failures, and personal refuges. A free-form collage that invites the viewer to lose themselves between the vertigo of what we were and the utopia of what we can still be.