家住洛杉矶的希妮·维尔斯（杰西卡·阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰）多才多艺，美丽聪慧，但是上天并未对她过多垂青。童年时发生的一场事故，导致希妮双目失明，从此只能生活在黑暗的世界里。在姐姐海伦（帕克·波西 Parker Posey 饰）的执意劝说下，希妮答应做角膜移植手术，她的世界重见光明。然而好景不长，在慢慢习惯了多彩世界后，希妮经常能够看到一些奇怪诡异的景象，而这些似乎又与死亡紧密联系在一起。在主治医师保罗·福克纳（亚历桑德罗·尼沃拉 Alessandro Nivola 饰）的帮助下，希妮开始踏上一段寻找真相的奇异旅程……

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.

A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.

Visual disturbances. Corrective surgery. Unsettling results.