Stuti and Aradhana are eleven-month-old conjoined twins born to poor farmers in a remote Indian village, abandoned by their parents and shunned by neighbors before hospital staff take them in. The film follows the medical team's push to separate the girls, tracking a nationwide fundraising campaign that pulls in favors from doctors around the world. Anaesthetist Professor David Baines, who argues the twins had no real life while joined, helps assemble an operating team of 24 doctors and 40 nurses for the surgery. Cameras get close access as the operation unfolds, while journalists crowd the hospital corridors outside, turning two babies into a story followed by a country of over a billion people. That attention becomes its own subject: hospital staff and observers speak plainly about how baby girls, especially those born with disabilities, are regarded as burdens in parts of rural India. The surgery itself is the film's climax, but the abandonment that preceded it is what the cameras keep returning to.