Unborn Deaths, Unsold Lives

When crime in the city of Rajkot, India, spiraled out of control, one man named Heera Singh posits a strange analysis for it. According to him, no female was born for the past many years in Rajkot, because of which the natural balance got disturbed, leading to turbulence in the society. When two journalists show an interest in his theory, he narrates an unusual story of a girl named Anju, who is the daughter of a kingpin, Manoj Singh.

Manoj Singh graduated from a small-time doctor of Rajkot to a wealthy kingpin. He operated several illegal health clinics, which carried out covert operations of female fetuses of pregnant women - whose patriarchal families preferred to give birth only to sons. As a result, daughters were aborted from their mothers' wombs even before they were born.

Anju, innocent and good-willed, was largely unaware of it until she grew up and found it out herself. But before she could protest against her father, she had fallen in love with a low-caste man and soon elopes with him.

In Kathmandu, they get married and begin a new life. For the next few years, Anju gets involved in fighting for the rights of women and girls. She is particularly touched by the issue of trafficking, where vulnerable girls and young women from Nepal are smuggled across the international border and sold away to brothels in India. So she decides to get to the root of this problem by pursuing the traffickers and bringing them to book.

But as she follows them, her trail strangely leads back to her hometown of Rajkot and then to her very own father. A strange connection emerges between the practice of female foeticide in India and the trafficking of girls in Nepal.