Chaos reigns in the streets, with many of the blind now struggling to find their way. Back at the hospital, Bill has finally regained his sight but has no idea of how the world has changed overnight. The plane eventually crashes and the man, narrowly escaping death, takes the name Torrence, after the destroyed Westminster road. The sole sighted man ( Eddie Izzard) clambers into the toilet, covers himself in life vests, and braces for the worst. The rays prove to be more dangerous than first thought, as they suddenly intensify to a horrific brilliance and all those who see the flares are blinded-more than 95 per cent of the world's population.Īn aircraft heading toward the capital is brought down when the solar storm blinds the pilots and all but one of the passengers on board. With his eyes covered in bandages, he misses a massive solar eruption which occurs that same night, the bright light of which is seen all over the world.

Lucy rushes him to a local hospital, where he is told that he has a 50–50 chance of going blind permanently.

One of these activists ( Ewen Bremner) breaks into a compound for male Triffids outside London and is arrested.īill is injured by an undeveloped plant in the attempt, having given his safety goggles to another worker, Lucy ( Nora-Jane Noone), a security officer and friend of Bill. Some protest the treatment of the plants.

Triffids are kept in warehouses in countries worldwide. In 2009, Bill Masen ( Dougray Scott), the son of the woman killed, is a Triffid expert and tells the story of how the oils the Triffids produce came to be used as a new alternative fuel, putting an end to man-made global warming. In the late 1970s in the jungles of Zaire, a woman is killed by a Triffid. Triffids are large carnivorous plants capable of vicious and intelligent behaviour and equipped with venomous stingers that they use to stun their prey before feeding on them.

The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham