Darkness Falls

Plot: What if? (DF)

1. What if the sun sets one evening, but fails to come up in the morning?

2. What if the main character, Rally Witts, walks home from work one evening as the sun, moon, and street lights slowly fade to black? He can feel his way home, but he slowly begins to realize, that he has gone blind. (Trivia: Mr. Rogers [Fred Rogers] was red/green colorblind. Remember that as you describe Rally's life.)

3. What if Rally Witts makes his living as a graphic artist, making concepts to be brilliantly illustrated with vivid colors? How could he continue to create amazing art as a blind man?

4. What if this unseen world becomes more real to Rally Witts than his previously sighted world?

5. What if Rally Witts' whole identity is wrapped up in him being able to see? What if blindness causes a deep depression, that causes him to fight for hope to live, hope to create, and joy at the new possibilities in life?

6. What if Rally Witts starts this journey as a self-sufficient atheist, who is transformed into a God-reliant believer, but only after everything else he tries,...fails?

7. What if Jessie Fide, his live-in girlfriend, who is not artistic at all, becomes Rally's hands and eyes to guide him to the canvas, where he teaches her the nuance of paint colors, but every painting is created by his own hands as she tells him where he is on the canvas, since he sees the finished piece of art in his mind?

8. What if Jessie Fide becomes a world-class painter in her own right, being taught to paint by her blind boyfriend? What if this artistic duo learns to create world-class art by bridging the realms of blindness and sightedness?


Jay O'Toole