In one of Mumbai's poorest slums, children go to work rather than school, scavenging, hawking, and hustling to help feed their families. The film follows several of these kids through their daily routines, showing them sorting through trash for scrap to sell, working street stalls, and navigating crowded lanes between makeshift homes. Interviews and observational footage capture their own accounts of what they do each day and why, set against the reality of families with no other income. Rather than treating poverty as an abstraction, the camera stays close to specific routines: a particular corner where goods get sold, a particular pile where materials get sorted, a particular family's one-room home. The desperation is plain, but so is the determination the description promises, kids figuring out how to be useful and how to survive in an environment with almost no safety net. It is a small, close look at child labor and urban poverty in India, told through the people living it rather than through statistics or expert commentary.