A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life. First Sight is true to the title from start to finish. Virgil Adamson skating in the dark appears first to Amy Benic in her car headlights driving lost searching for her retreat spa motel. Virgil's first visual memory links him coincidentally to his last. This is a true love drama with the character of Phil Webster providing laughs counseling visual therapy. All demonstrate emotional vulnerability, teaching the audience that learning love matters in art, architecture, education, parenting, massage and trees. —Larry Auburn 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. —Huggo A driven Manhattan architect, Amy, relaxes at a resort and falls for the masseur, Virgil, blind since age 3 and assisted by his spinster sister. He helps Amy hear and sense the world, giving her new spirit and a burst of creativity. Over the sister's objections, Amy takes Virgil to New York for new, radical surgery. He regains his sight. He's disoriented and must learn to process these new images. Finding his place in a seeing world strains his relation with Amy; his absent father wants to connect with him now that he can see; then, retinal disease threatens to undo the surgery. Can love survive, will he find his new place and his old tranquillity, can Amy accommodate limits? —<jhailey@hotmail.com> Amy is an architect who works for perfection. She takes a vacation at a small town health spa where she meets Virgil, a blind masseur. She falls in love with him for the senses he loves that she takes for granted. They listen to the rain, they make love, and then she does research on restoring sight he hasn't had since he was one year old. He joins her in New York and undergoes the treatment only to find that seeing doesn't mean comprehending what one sees. The difficult road to understanding the visual world tests their relationship. The strain is taken to the limits when Virgil begins to lose his sight once again. —Lordship <lordship@juno.com>
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