- Mirabai, an impassioned school teacher, has left her urban lifestyle to teach in Kutch, Gujurat. When Mira witnesses growing illness among the village children after a pre-paid water meter is installed, she is compelled to take action. Nia, an ambitious young African-American executive, represents the interests of Hydron, a Manhattan-based water corporation. Nia goes to this Indian village to demonstrate Hydron's new pilot project water pump that dispenses water with a swipe from a pre-paid credit card. When Nia finds herself in need of drinking water without a pre-paid card, both women must confront the horror of this system.
- A Drop of Life is a futuristic film about the intersecting lives of two women on two hemispheres, bound by the most precious resource on earth: water. Nia is a powerful executive whose water distribution program in the global south promises millions in profits for Hydron, the multinational water corporation for which she works. Mirabai is an idealistic young teacher in a tiny rural village in India. When Hydron implements its pay-per-use water pump in Mirabai's community with devastating consequences, both womens lives are changed irrevocably.
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