By the purest of accidents a blind man inadvertently stumbles across the scene of a terrible murder. Though he cannot see what is happening, he can hear only too clearly, and when his sight is later restored he is haunted by the memories of that fateful night. When he later encounters — and falls in love with — a mysterious woman who is in some way involved in the crime, the mystery deepens and leads our hero on an arduous journey to Siberia to track down the one man who can reveal the truth about what happened and unlock the secret to his future happiness.