The most stigmatized people in Calcutta's Red Light District are not the prostitutes but their children. Surrounded by poverty, abuse and despair, these children have little chance of escaping the fate of their mothers or aspiring to a life other than the one they have. Directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffrnan show the amazing transformation of the children they met in Calcutta's Red Light District. Briski, a professional totograte, decides one day to teach photography and provide cameras to children who live in one of the most seedy and seemingly hopeless places in the entire world in order to awaken the artistic aptitudes that reside in many of them. The children's photographs are not only examples of their talent and great powers of observation; they reflect something much larger, morally much more promising, and even politically much more volatile: art is an immensely liberating and empowering force.