From Nobel Prize winning author Jose
Saramago and acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The
Constant Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling
story of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious
blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human nature,
both bad and good–people’s selfishness, opportunism,and
indifference, but also their capacity for empathy, love and
sheer perseverance.
It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck
blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly
turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he
encounters – his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good
samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due course
suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads,
and panic and paranoia set in across the city, the newly
blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and
quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum,
where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down.
But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret
eyewitness: one woman (four-time Academy Award® nominee
Julianne Moore) who has not been affected but has pretended
she is blind in order to stay beside her beloved husband
(Mark Ruffalo). Armed with increasing courage and the will
to survive, she will lead a makeshift family of seven people
on a journey, through horror and love, depravity and beauty,
warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into
the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.
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