How does a blind child perceive reality? To explore this question, Johan van der Keuken spent two months in a specialised institution in the Netherlands. Blind child reveals a world hard to imagine: the endless struggle of those who cannot see to stay in touch with reality. Using the film medium, Van der Keuken depicts their unique worldview. On this, he said in Algemeen Handelsblad itself:

"Blindness is not the lack of facilities to perceive the same as everyone else. It is not walking around in the same world but in darkness; in fact, ‘the world of darkness’ is the crudest but most widespread misconception about blindness: total blindness, in the absence of any reference to light, is a state of neutral grey, an absence. Because of this absence, a blind person does not operate with a lack, the organisation of his faculties of perception is structured differently, what he perceives is not the same minus something, the environment comes to him totally differently, the world looks different to him."

Van der Keuken made over 50 films, and Blind Child marked his breakthrough with the general public.