When you make eye contact, when you hold someone's gaze, it’s the closest thing to knowing you're not alone in the world...

After 32 years of living her life in the dark, Jillian Safinova — Nova to everyone, except her mother — is learning to see. She can see that the sky is blue. And green. And grey. And a whole spectrum of colours, as changeable as her mood.

She can see that clouds are surprisingly solid. And she can that Kate, a woman she’s only just met, is going to change her life forever.