In India, baby girls die or vanish before birth in numbers that skew the country's sex ratio, and this film asks why, tracing the answer back to money. Dowry payments are illegal but still demanded as a condition of arranged marriage, and families facing the prospect of paying for a daughter's wedding weigh that future cost against the option of not raising a girl at all. The film moves through villages and clinics, gathering accounts from mothers, midwives, and officials who describe how ultrasound technology, meant for prenatal care, gets used instead to select which pregnancies continue. It lays out the economic logic plainly: sons bring dowry income and support parents in old age, daughters bring debt and departure. Legal bans on both dowry and sex-selective abortion appear on paper but do little to change household calculations. The film treats infanticide and sex-selective abortion as symptoms of the same financial pressure rather than isolated crimes, and stays with the women who carry out the choice as much as the ones who survive it.