Andrea Gibson Agreed to Be Filmed as They Died of Cancer, but It Wasn't Sad (Exclusive)

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Come See Me in the Good Light , now available on Apple TV, is about the end of poet Andrea Gibson’s life as Gibson grew more and more ill with ovarian cancer that doctors deemed incurable

But the documentary, which was filmed with a small crew over a year, is not sad — by design

“I felt like I could pluck Andrea out of the screen,” their widow, Megan Falley, tells PEOPLE of watching the footage

The first time Megan Falley watched the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light without her spouse, the noted poet Andrea Gibson , she wept and wept and wept “the whole way through.”

“I felt like I could pluck Andrea out of the screen,” Falley, 37, tells PEOPLE.

The film, available now to stream on Apple TV , is about the end of Gibson’s life as Gibson (who used they/th