The Living Book combines live action and animation to describe a couples bickering attempts to account for all of human culture postapocalypse as their own memories fail them Partly inspired by the Doukhobors a 17thcentury Christian sect in Poland Living Book Erin Cosgroves film also draws on such diverse source material as stringtheory science fiction and religious history Meditative and humorous the film confronts its overtly broad theme within the frame of an ongoing argument between two lifetime intimates