《盲流感》描述了一个陷入致盲病毒的城市，导火线从一名司机点燃，突然失明后，他得到了一个人的善意帮助，这条线继续燃烧下去，眼科医生也来帮助他们了，故事就这样开始了。所有的致盲者都被关进了一座废弃的精神病院，重兵把守，不惜生命的代价也要制止疾病的扩散。

2008年《盲流感》被搬上荧幕，作为第61届戛纳电影节开幕影片。主演：Julianne Moore Gael García Bernal Mark Ruffalo Alice Braga 伊势谷友介 木村佳乃。

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.