A woman boards a train with no destination to flee the emptiness left by a clandestine romance that made her feel reborn, only to later destroy her. During the journey, alongside the memories of that forbidden love, the shadows of other women from her life slip in—women who, like her, chose to break the rules and set out on their own path toward truth.
After dropping her daughter off at school, a woman boards a train heading nowhere. She carries no suitcase and no plan. Only an unbearable vertigo.
What no one in her family knows—what she herself barely admits—is that she is fleeing the echo of a love that no longer exists: a clandestine romance that pulled her out of routine only to end up sinking her completely. This is the core of the story: the intimate and ferocious account of a woman trying to escape an emotional shipwreck.
Two years before this escape, the protagonist was living what anyone would consider a settled life: an attentive husband, a young daughter, a manageable mortgage, a stable job at a pharmaceutical company. A correct life, but utterly empty.
That emptiness found oxygen in an adulterous relationship with a young, impulsive coworker addicted to intensity. Together they built a refuge of unrestrained passion where she felt alive again. But that same intensity turned into jealousy, dependency, and abrupt breakups. When he decided to cut things off for good, consumed by the idea that they would never have a future, he died in a traffic accident. She was left devastated and forced to feign normality in her own home.
The novel moves between that past that burns her and the present of her escape by train. With every kilometer, the memories of her relationship strike her with the same force as the stories of the women from her village: figures who, in different eras, also said enough. Women who broke rules, disappeared, caused scandal, or returned defying the world. They are uncomfortable mirrors that throw back the great question: can a woman save herself without destroying everything?
When the train stops in Tarragona, the protagonist spends a night suspended between lucidity and collapse. At dawn, something clicks: she cannot keep running. She must return and face whatever still stands. She walks toward the station, determined to go back. Then the inevitable and the symbolic occur: a van runs her over and she dies instantly. Her attempt at escape ends like her love story: as a shipwreck with no return.
Es náufragi is an intense, forceful work that explores desire, guilt, and motherhood through the direct gaze of a woman who, in her desperate attempt to live, ends up provoking her own downfall.
RELEVANT FACTS: Magda Simó is a Valencian journalist and writer. Her work is characterized by poetic language and great visual power.
És naufragi won the 2024 Lletraferit Novel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards on the Valencian literary scene. It is an ideal novel for an intimate auteur film of great emotional intensity, as the author masterfully turns inner emotions into scenes with enormous cinematic impact.
With a powerful and contradictory protagonist, the story is devastating and forceful, featuring fragmented scenes, time jumps, flashbacks, and highly symbolic settings. Somewhere between Blue Is the Warmest Color and Marriage Story.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV series, Miniseries, Feature film, TV film.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Valencian.
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