In a city anywhere, a man strangely suffers of a
blindness, while it is in the traffic light. A white blindness. Soon, other people start to suffer from the evil and an epidemic of white blindness spreads over the city, infecting men, women, children, aged. The governing, fearful, decide for the immediate isolation of those who were blind, seeing all white. A persecution was initiated, and the infected ones had been taken to an abandoned
place, wild, old sanatorium, confined, segregated, imprisoned in innumerable sections of a true concentration camp. Between them, a woman, the only one there, that mysteriously, she does not blind. she follows its
husband, but all found that it was in the same situation that they. It had divisions of society, chaste, between that, according to governing, they would remain in forty days until the cause of the white evil was
discovered. Bandits intimidated excessively, stealing provisionses, beating men and forceing women. The authorities did not take knowledge of the terror lived in that place, preferred to be far. Each time more, people were pursued and led to that
arrest. The white blind people had suffered, land on water, they adapted the hard routine of the place. The woman who does not blind was rapped near its husband, who could not see, to only hear, avenges itself, assassinating its executioner, the leader of the band of delinquents who stole food and made distribution the way they like, by means of sexual favors of the women.
The white blindness, such which a black plague, made new victims without they discovered the cause. In the arrest, the people acted as animal, without modesty, civility. They did not see, but of long dates the humanity was blind, even seeing. Suddenly, in a similar way that all had started to blind, the ones that had not died had recovered the vision, coming back to normality. But the barbarities could not have been extinguished of the memory