A photographer takes a long time to position his model in a garden and finally settles down to take the photograph. Just when he snaps his camera, a woman unwittingly walks into the picture. She apologises, then walks away.
By a twist of fate, the photographer goes to the salon where this woman works to have a haircut. They recognize each other from the previous incident. He then asks her to be his model. So it happened this way that she became his model and they started dating. One day in his studio he asks her to help him get some film from a shelf. Unfortunately, while trying to reach the film, a bottle of acid drops and the acid spills into her eyes. Though she was rushed to the hospital, they could not save her sight and she was pronounced blind. She had to undergo an eye transplant to regain her sight.
When she got back from the hospital, she learnt that the photographer had left. He had just packed up and gone. Had she fallen in love with a jerk who refused to take care of her, who stopped loving her because she was blind? Or had he left because he somehow felt guilty for her accident and could not bear to face her? Unanswered questions like these she was left to ponder while crying over ice cream; yearning for the man she loved.
Quite a while has passed. One day, she goes to the park where they used to go together, filled with memories of him. In the distance, she spots a blind man throw a stick for his dog to catch. His silhouette seems somewhat familiar. When she walks up to him, she realizes in shock that the blind man is the photographer. A photograph that is half-poking out of his pocket gets blown out by the wind and lands at her feet. It is a photograph of her.
The truth of the story is that he had loved her too much to let her live the rest of her life blind, even if he would be there taking care of her. So he gave up everything that he loved - his photography, his motorbike, her, and his sight. He gave all these up so that she could see. He chose to leave her and live in solidarity with only memories of her to keep him warm at night so as to relieve her of the burden of taking care of a blind man, so that she would not be obligated to him, so that she would not know that the cost of her sight was his.