Blindness

A sudden epidemic of white blindness sweeps through an unnamed city, spreading by contact and defying explanation. As authorities rush to contain it, the first afflicted are isolated in a disused mental hospital, where order quickly gives way to fear and abuse.

Among the quarantined is one woman who can still see, though she keeps that fact hidden at first. She becomes the group’s guide as the illness spreads beyond the institution and the city itself starts to break apart, forcing the survivors to navigate hunger, terror, exploitation, and the collapse of social rules.

As the blind struggle to survive, the story follows their movement through a devastated world in which names, status, and normal structures matter less than instinct and behavior. The narrative builds toward a hard-won search for dignity, and toward a return of sight that does not erase what has been learned.