Follow the emotional and often desperate journey of people who are struggling to regain or preserve their eyesight. A blind teenager in China begs on the street and offers his kidney to pay for an eye surgery. In India, a local doctor must convince suspicious parents that their children will go blind without medical treatment. And in Ethiopia, a devoted son brings his blind father to the capital in hopes of receiving a free operation. As each faces the challenges of modern healthcare, traditional beliefs, and financial reality, it becomes clear that treating blindness requires much more than a medical procedure.

CHINA (Kunming and Guizhou) At the Red Cross Hospital in Kunming, Wang Xiaoqiang, a 19 year-old boy from Guizhou-one of the poorest provinces in China- waits for a foreign doctor to examine him. Though he'd been blind since the age of four, Wang was brought to the hospital for the first time by a man who found him standing and begging on a bridge, with a sign around his neck that read "Will Sell Kidney for 3000 Yuan, in Exchange for Sight". Desperate to be able to see just once again, he was willing to part with his kidney for $375. Eventually, Wang is lead into a room where two foreign doctors examine him. With luck on his side, a medical non-profit organization agrees to offer him a free surgery. For the first time in his life, the possibility to end years of darkness that surrounded seemed like a reality. After the surgery, he stays in Kunming with his cousin so that he can return for follow up exams. But 6 months later, he suddenly goes back to his hometown in Guizhou, where access to hospital or medial care is non-existent.

INDIA (Delhi and Rajasthan) Deepak Bagga, is a 28 year-old optometrist working in a rural clinic in Rajasthan. When he is not managing the clinic or seeing patients, he travels to surrounding villages and sets up eye examination camps to identify people with medical issues. On one of these visits, he meets Suman and Babulal, two young children who had cataracts since their birth. He tries to convince their parents to bring the children to the clinic, that otherwise, they will eventually go blind. However his enthusiasm is met with mistrust and disinterest and it takes five visits until finally one day, Babulal and Suman arrives to the clinic. At another eye camp, Deepak meets Rangila, an 11 year-old blind girl whose eyes have turned opaque white due to Glaucoma. He arranges for an American organization to have her examined, but that only confirms that she will never regain her vision... Though disappointed, Deepak continues to pursue any possibilities left for rehabilitation or to prevent her vision from getting worse, because he knows that he is her only access to medical care.

ETHIOPIA (Addis Ababa and Kemise) Asfawu (60 yrs old), a farmer in rural Ethiopia has been blind for the last few years from age related cataract. His devoted son Ayela (28 yrs old) worked to support their family, but was always extremely saddened to see his father in that state. Finally, with a little money in their pocket, they decide to leave for the capital in hopes of receiving an eye surgery so they can go back and resume their lives as before. However the big capital is a foreign place, and the father and son find themselves struggling their way through the chaos. On the day of the surgery, Ayela awaits anxiously at the ward. The father returns with his vision regained and the son is ecstatic. However, on the same day as their discharge, riots break out in Addis Ababa, as a result of a clash between Ethiopian government and its opposition force. Meanwhile, already some miles away from Addis Ababa, Ayela and Asfawu continue their journey home. A few days later, they finally rejoin their family, who had feared that they had lost them forever, all during their absence of over a month without any communication. .