Annie Dillard, in her book Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, outlines two ways of seeing, learned seeing and pure seeing. If youu2019re an ornithologist you see birds. If youu2019re a painter you notice color. This, for Dillard, is learned seeing. But she suggests that there is another kind of seeing, a pure seeing. She asks what those who have been blind for years and are given their sight back through surgery perceive. What are those first moments like, this kind of conscious perception of the world without the limitations of preconception? This film is an illustration of seeing for the first time. u201CWhen the doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw the tree with the lights in it.u201D The tree became the dominant motif for the film. First, the tree appears as the classic example used when psychologists and philosophers talk about perception. Do we see the tree itself or our idea of the tree? Do we see the same tree others see? But the tree also appears to the girl as a revelation, as a kind of vision of another world. But for the first time the girl also sees her mother and father, her sisters and brothers, photographs of her family. The tree thus becomes the first vision of her family and in this respect the symbol of her lineage.