"… the cloud parted to reveal a piece of broken sky, so blue it took the breath away …" England, 1964 - a flu pandemic had left most survivors blind, but spared Sam and Rachel who were thrown together in a desperate bid to survive. After five years of rebuilding their lives, they are challenged by a group of vigilantes trying to destroy their small community. Fate leads Sam to Claire, blind and abandoned, and their growing relationship starts to fracture the bond between him and Rachel and threaten everything they have had together. Sam struggles to make the right choices for himself and their community as the odds stack against them, until help arrives from an unexpected source. Will they all turn away from the offer of salvation and choose to strive on alone? Live or die, the consequences could be no less stark.