Bill Masen wakes in hospital after an eye operation, the result of being stung by a triffid, an oil-yielding plant at the farm where he works. Walter, his boss, believes the triffids to be intelligent, cunning beings with the capacity for malice and Bill was also stung, though not severely, as a child by a triffid in his father's garden. The previous night most of the country, including hospital staff, were thrilling at a spectacular meteor shower but Bill, on removing his bandages, discovers that everybody who witnessed it has been blinded by its intense light.
Bill leaves hospital to find the city deserted and devoid of all amenities. He comes across a family whose little girl is still sighted and who want him to stay and help them but he presses on through streets filled with blind looters in search of other sighted survivors. He rescues Jo ,who slept through the meteor shower and is being used by a blind man as his guide (are you serious?), and they go to her house, only to find that her father and house-keeper have been stung to death by the now ambulant and deadlier triffids. On their way to find guns they are attacked by an angry mob of blind people.
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