Across India and China, millions of girls never make it to childhood, aborted before birth, abandoned after it, or killed outright because sons are valued and daughters are not. Director Evan Grae Davis opens with the United Nations estimate that puts the number of missing girls worldwide at roughly 200 million, then goes looking for the mechanics behind that figure. The film follows mothers who have hidden daughters from in-laws demanding sons, women maimed or killed over dowry disputes, and girls sold into trafficking networks that thrive on families desperate to be rid of an unwanted birth. Interviews on location in both countries lay out how tradition, dowry economics, and government population policy reinforce each other, so that killing or abandoning a daughter can look like the rational choice inside a given household even as it hollows out entire communities. Shadowline Films keeps the camera close to individual women rather than statistics, letting the mothers who fought to keep their daughters alive sit alongside the ones who did not.