In 1950, a newspaper appeared in Rome, the fruit of the passion and imagination of one multimillionaire. For more than half a century, it has surprised and entertained readers from all over the world. But now the era of the Internet begins, the newspaper's circulation is rapidly falling, it still does not have its own website, and the future looks bleak. However, the publication's staff does not seem to notice this. The obituary writer feigns being extremely busy in order to avoid working. The editor-in-chief is considering whether to rekindle her romance with her longtime lover. An elderly reader is obsessed with reading all the back issues of the newspaper and gradually becomes a prisoner of the past. And the publisher seems to be much more interested in his dog Schopenhauer than in newspaper troubles. “Hackworkers” is a story about how everything ends: human life, passion, the times of the printed press. And also about what might arise in return. English journalist Tom Rackman worked as a correspondent for The Associated Press in Rome, where the plot of his debut novel unfolds. The book was published in ten countries.