Following a bicycle accident, Nina’s perception of the world is no longer the same. Everything, even feelings, can have a rational and biological explanation. This is until Nina meets Marte – Mars – who seems indeed to have come from another planet to save her.

An insightful, gentle novel that not only explores love, but also the fear of abandoning ourselves to life and to others, and offers a memorable glimpse on the body and the mystery of existence.

Nina is sixteen years old when she falls off her bicycle. It’s no ordinary fall: the handlebar has penetrated her right thigh at the femoral artery. It’s a miracle she survives, and for the rest of her life she will have to listen to her body and pay attention to even the slightest symptom. So Nina starts to look differently at every emotion, experience, and even love, which can be narrowed down to a rational and biologocal explanation.

Twenty years later, with a doctorate in Clinical Pathology, Nina is convinced that even happiness can be explained in scientific terms. Then, one day, she meets a journalist: his name is Marte and he actually seems to have come from a different planet to burst the bubble in which she has obstinately taken refuge.