The doctor heads into an unexpected and deeply uncertain future in a quarantine zone that has not even been defined yet. Although the budding epidemic was entirely in his hands just a few hours ago, now the doctor is deprived of all agency and forced to simply obey the Ministry’s directives. His lifetime of specialized medical experience becomes irrelevant—now, he is nothing more than one patient among others. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether the doctor’s wife is telling the truth about going blind. After all, nobody can know whether she is really blind or not since the illness has no external markers. If the doctor’s moral purity and sense of selfless responsibility are any indication of his wife, she may be prepared to take extreme measures to stay with her husband.