Bill and Jo try to find refuge from the panic-stricken streets of London and the dangers of the triffids.

Bill finds himself kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from Jo.

Recovering in hospital from a blinding triffid sting, Bill Masen, wakes up to an uncanny silence...

His sight restored, Bill sees the new world of blindness and panic menaced by triffids...

Six years later in the Sussex farmhouse, Bill and Jo find themselves cut off by growing numbers of triffids...

Bill continues his search for Jo, through the spreading disease and maurading triffids...