Six blind children appeared on television 15 years ago in a documentary film called Eyes of a Child. That programme was made in a school for blind children and showed the care and skill devoted to bringing up such children to cope in a sighted world.

How have those children fared, now they are adults? What became of Mandy, Emma, Andrew and the others when they met the world outside? As they look back at their schooldays and talk about their lives today most of them reveal a sad gap between hope and fulfilment.