What if a meteor shower left most of the world blindand humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?

Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffidsplants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.