Part 1: Saheb-e-Alam in Seemapuri
- Saheb is a Bangladeshi refugee living in Seemapuri on the outskirts of Delhi. His name ironically means "Lord of the Universe", yet he wanders barefoot scouring garbage dumps for coins.
- To the elders, garbage is daily bread; to children, it is wrapped in wonder.
- Saheb takes a job at a tea stall for 800 rupees and all meals, but loses his carefree freedom; the steel canister is heavier than the plastic garbage bag.
Part 2: Mukesh in Firozabad
- Firozabad is the center of India's glass-blowing industry, where generations of families have worked around furnaces in suffocating dark cells, losing their eyesight before adulthood.
- Mukesh dares to dream differently: he wants to become a motor mechanic.
- Trapped in a vicious circle created by middlemen, sahukars, policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.
