At First Sight

Originally planning on becoming an artist, Amy Benic is a partner in a New York City architectural firm alongside her ex-husband, Duncan Allanbrook. On a much needed vacation alone at the Bear Mountain Inn, a resort upstate, Amy meets Virgil Adamson, one of the masseurs at the resort. It isn't until after their first session, where she ended up being emotionally touched to an extreme by the experience, that she discovers that Virgil is blind, he having been so since he was an infant. He has largely been able to live independently in the familiarity of his routine within town, also with the help of his older sister, teacher Jennie Adamson, who willingly sacrificed a life of her own to be his protector in the absence of parents. Their father, the only surviving parent, abandoned them when they were younger. Also making a connection with Amy, Virgil trades his role as her masseur to become her friend and lover. Amy discovers that Dr. Charles Aaron in New York City has come up with a revolutionary procedure possibly to restore Virgil's vision, she who is able eventually to convince Virgil to move to New York City with her to undergo the procedure funded by Dr. Aaron's institute. Amy in Virgil's life already does not sit well with Jennie, who fears she will be a short term phase in Amy not understanding the intricacies of dealing with someone blind on a day-in and day-out basis. But the surgery will nonetheless alter Amy and Virgil's relationship. If it fails, Virgil will go through that emotional roller coaster he could not withstand as a child with failed procedure after procedure forced upon him by his father. And if it succeeds, Virgil will enter a world within which he has no knowledge, the safeguards he and Jennie have implemented which may be the cause of another emotional upheaval.