Set during wartime, the drama follows a young officer who returns from the front permanently blinded and examines how his injury reverberates through family, lovers, and public life. Scenes alternate between intimate domestic confrontations—marked by a mother's anguished desire to see her son's eyes—and public settings like receptions and hospitals where hunger, deprivation, and the moral costs of conflict are laid bare. The play juxtaposes lyrical reflections on light, sacrifice, and heroism with stark depictions of prisoners' suffering, probing collective responses to loss, pity, and the ethics of representing wartime horror on stage.