The hero is a young blind teenager, named Horace Mayberry, who gets fitted out with some nanotronic eyes. They are intelligent and can develop various functions to assist in whatever situations he experiences. Horace is a cautious lad, and each situation he encounters causes his eyes to develop something new, and enable his introvert personality to evolve too. He becomes impulsive and somewhat headstrong, at first.He is recruited into a secret government agency as an assistant to an experienced agent and embarks on a series of adventures, including being abducted twice by an international gang of crooks led by Rudolph Beckman, an international billionaire financier who is after the secrets of the laboratory that developed the nanotronic eyes. He uses a trio of henchmen to do his bidding.The finale covers an attack on the crooks hideout in the Canary Island of Tenerife.