Fourteen-year-old Eryn, who has been blind since birth, made the three-hour round-trip for a screening of The Magic Faraway Tree, a film adapted from Enid Blyton’s book series. Eryn said the journey was necessary because the cinema was the only one her family could find offering audio description (AD) headsets.
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