Afghanistan produces most of the world's opium, and the film reports that it now has one of the youngest drug-addicted populations anywhere. Journalist Ramita Navai travels through the country to meet children who are already dependent on opium and heroin, along with the families trying to cope and the aid workers attempting rehabilitation with almost no resources. She follows Mohammad, eleven years old, addicted for years; his mother cannot afford treatment, so he keeps using simply to avoid withdrawal. Navai's interviews trace the addiction back to poverty and the collapse of healthcare and education under decades of conflict, showing parents who see no alternative to letting a child smoke opium to quiet hunger or pain. The film stays close to individual households rather than statistics, letting the shortage of clinics and money speak for itself. It ends without a resolution for Mohammad or the other children Navai meets, only the scale of a problem still unaddressed.