Seeing

The story is set four years after the events of the novel *Blindness*, in the same unnamed capital city. On election day, an unprecedented political crisis erupts when a staggering seventy to eighty-three percent of the populace casts a blank ballot, an unexplained, non-violent 'revolution' that shocks the nation's government. Thrown into a state of panic and seeing this collective act as domestic terrorism, the government declares a state of siege and places the capital under military cordon, evacuating themselves to the countryside. What begins as a sharp political satire on the paranoia and ineptitude of authority and the efficacy of the democratic system takes a sinister turn when the increasingly desperate government launches a secret investigation to find the supposed ringleader. Their suspicion eventually focuses on the doctor's wife—the only person who retained her sight during the previous epidemic of white blindness—believing her to be the mastermind behind the city's sudden act of lucidity.

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