The thief is buried in a shallow grave in the yard. A group of internees waits around the front of the hospital for the next food delivery. When it arrives, the soldiers are nervous and as the crowd of blind people surges forward, several soldiers open fire and being to shoot down blind people. In all, nine internees are killed. The other internees haul away the food and the bodies of the dead and, after eating, bury them. The doctor's wife attracts some attention by her ability to perform complex tasks. Although the girl with dark glasses will never realize it, one of the dead men is the man who she met at the hotel for sex - the man who had abandoned her when she went blind.
That evening the public address system.....
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