“Oxygen is the book I never wanted to write.” The sentence might be read as a literary device, but it takes on a different significance when one realises that Marta Jiménez Serrano (Spain) was on the verge of dying alongside her partner. A leak in the boiler, carbon monoxide poisoning, waking up drowsy, making her way to the bathroom, falling, losing consciousness. What could have been the end becomes a reconstruction encompassing the accident, its consequences and the life that made it possible, including the precarious circumstances that triggered it.






