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A city is ravaged by an
epidemic of instant “white blindness”. Those first afflicted are quarantined by
the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created “society
of the blind” quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey
upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts.
There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is
unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There,
keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in
essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets
of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Their voyage
is fraught with danger, yet their survival and ultimate redemption reflect the
tenacity and depth of the human spirit. |
