A mysterious epidemic spreads rapidly, causing instant "white blindness" that ravages a city. As the first afflicted are quarantined in an abandoned mental hospital, a new society forms, but it's plagued by crime and chaos. Amidst the chaos, a woman whose sight remains unaffected becomes the only eyewitness to the devastation, and she secretly guides a group of seven strangers who have become a makeshift family.

Blindness
A sudden and unexplained epidemic of instantaneous white blindness sweeps through the city, plunging its inhabitants into darkness and panic amidst a backdrop of a catastrophic pandemic.