A quirky and lively short about extreme myopia and a man with a passion for collecting super-thick myopia spectacles – one that finds him connecting with people who have the same visual impairment.

Glasses and contact lenses have become ... Concave lenses correct myopia by being thin at the centre and thick at the edge. It diverges light rays entering the eye so they focus further back ...

Glasses may work as a solution for some people, but the lenses required may be unacceptably thick for people with severe myopia. Contact lenses are also an option, but they need to be frequently ...

But Paul’s ophthalmologist in the western French city of Nantes had some good news: specially designed glasses had just become available that could slow down the progression of Paul’s myopia.