In a world where printing machines spit out books relentlessly, a contrasting reality exists – amidst the noise of the city, a writer battles despair, struggling to find words in front of a blank page.

What does it take to make a book? The great idea of Ābele and Šķēle’s film is capturing two contradictory forces on screen – the stream-of-consciousness of a writer struggling to create and a factory printing millions of pages. The mind vs the mechanical, the spark and the finished product, the beginning and the end. Minus the words in between. This documentary essay is a clever and ironic take on capturing energy – literally “catching lightning in a bottle”.