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The fiction-documentary novel I Saw is a new attempt by one of the leading Ukrainian contemporary writers Volodymyr Shovkoshytnyi, a survivor of the Chornobyl accident and an active liquidator of its consequences, to combine the literature of memory and the literature of fact. In his opinion, there are no genres outside of life, and life is an all-encompassing genre. Thus, the work combines the memoirs of eyewitnesses of the largest man-made disaster in the history of mankind, participants in the liquidation of its consequences, traces the fates of literary heroes, analyses the man-made, economic, social and medical consequences of the largest man-made disaster, and shows the prospects for returning the contaminated territories to economic circulation. This book answers the main questions that arose after Chornobyl and shows the spiritual connection between the heroes of Chornobyl, the Maidan protesters and the ATO participants. For all 33 years after Chornobyl, the author was at the epicentre of Ukrainian life. The book disproves many myths, including those generated by the TV series "Chernobyl".