BLIND LIGHT starring Emmy-Award winner Edie Falco of "The Sopranos" a film by Pola Rapaport 1 hour, color SYNOPSIS

In the Villa San Michele on the Italian island of Capri, three characters are overwhelmed by a moment of blinding awareness, when the exterior layers of their own identities suddenly fall away. In a unique blending of genres which unmasks the filmmaking process, the three find their emotional lives re-awakened by the mysterious power of the blinding Mediterranean light that floods the villa. Interweaving through the film are the stories of Diana (Edie Falco), a photographer on commercial assignment, Swedish author Axel Munthe, 1857-1949 (Per Myrberg), creator of the villa, and the filmmaker herself, as narrator of the story.

In an effort to illuminate their moments of rapture, "so brief yet so profound", the film transports the viewer from New York to Capri, to Death Valley and on to Stockholm, moving freely between documentary and fiction on a journey "to rediscover those two or three great and simple images in whose presence one's heart first opened".

The sensuousness of the film's imagery is complemented by a haunting soundtrack combining the post-modern songs of Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel, the punk-rock of Richard Hell & The Voidoids and the Irish spirituality of Van Morrison. The inner drama of turn-of-the-century blind writer Axel Munthe is scored with the music of Franz Schubert and Enrique Granados.

As they journey to re-create their transcendent experience, each of the film's three protagonists discovers that the true value of the brilliant light of San Michele is that it leads through a circuitous and sometimes even torturous route to the light within.