"The Book of Eli" - for laura our libraian - is our "eli "

[1]The Book of Eli  Thirty years after an apocalyptic event, Eli (Denzel Washington [2]) travels on foot toward the west coast of the United States. Along the way he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of highway bandits who tried to ambush him. Searching for a source of water he arrives in a ramshackle town which was built by and is overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman [3]). Carnegie dreams of building more towns and hinges these hopes on finding a certain book. His henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of it.

After pushing away a cat in Carnegie's bar, Eli is set upon by a gang of bikers and kills them all. Realizing that Eli is a literate man like himself, Carnegie asks Eli to stay, though it is made clear that the offer is non-negotiable. After Carnegie's blind wife Claudia (Jennifer Beals [4]) gives Eli some food Carnegie asks Claudia's daughter Solara (Mila Kunis [5]) to seduce Eli. Eli turns her down, but before they eat he says a prayer. The following day Solara prays with her mother, and Carnegie realizes that Eli has a copy of the Bible, the book he has been looking for, as all copies were destroyed after the apocalypse. Eli sneaks out of his room and goes to the store across the street where he asked the Engineer (Tom Waits [6]) to recharge his portable battery. Carnegie attempts to stop Eli, having all his henchmen fire at him, but Eli avoids the gunfire and shoots most of Carnegie's henchmen, even shooting Carnegie's leg with a shotgun. After Eli leaves, Solara follows and tracks him down, hoping she can accompany him on his travels and escape the town. Eli agrees on the condition that she take him to the town's water supply. After fulfilling her end of the bargain, Eli traps her there and continues on alone. Solara escapes and soon finds herself set upon by two men. As Solara grapples with the men, Eli suddenly appears and dispatches them with arrows. Eli and Solara continue on until they arrive at a strange house. They stop to investigate and quickly fall into a trap door. The residents Martha (Frances de la Tour [7]) and George (Michael Gambon [8]) appear and invite them in for tea. Eli surmises that they trap, kill, and then eat invaders, but before Eli and Solara can leave they are found by Carnegie.

Eli, Solara, Martha, and George hole up inside the house, and George reveals a hidden stockpile of powerful weaponry. A shoot-out ensues, leading to the death of some of Carnegie's men as well as George and Martha. Eli and Solara are captured. Carnegie threatens to kill Solara, which prompts Eli to hand over the Bible. Carnegie shoots him in the stomach and leaves. While in transit, Solara escapes and drives back to help Eli. Carnegie returns to the town as he has the Bible and is low on fuel. Solara picks Eli up and they continue west until they reach the Golden Gate Bridge [9], then they row to Alcatraz [10] where they find a group of survivors dedicated to preserving pre-war knowledge. Eli tells the guard that he has a copy of the King James version [11] of the Bible, and they are allowed in. Inside they are introduced to Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell [12]), who is the curator of a collection of things from before the apocalypse. Eli, now revealed to be blind, dictates the Bible from memory to Lombardi, before dying from his wounds. Carnegie has the Engineer open the Bible but is distraught to find that it is in Braille [13], and his wife refuses to read it to him. His leg has started to go septic, and he realizes he will die with nothing to show for his ambitions. Alcatraz prints copies of the Bible and places one in the library amongst copies of other holy books, and Solara takes Eli's weapons and heads back east to the town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Eli [14]