When one man is struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world is turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters suffers the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and paranoia sets in, the newly blind victims of the "White Sickness" are quarantined within an abandoned mental asylum. But, inside the quarantined hospital, there is one woman who has only pretended she is blind in order to stay beside her husband. She will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Sandra Oh, Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Maury Chaykin, Don McKellar, Martha Burns, Michael Mahonen
Directed by:
Fernando Meirelles
Rating: R (for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity)
Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Runtime: 118 min