Heartland Film Festival 2008

A Drop of Life is the story of two women, one of rural India and the other from the urban United States, and the convergence of their shared struggle for access to clean drinking water.

Nia, an ambitious young African-American lawyer, represents the interests of Manhattan-based water corporation Hydron. The night before she leaves for India to seal a lucrative, multi-million dollar water deal between Hydron and the Indian government, she boards the elevator in her office building and has an ominous vision of a pleading Indian child. She sees the global water crisis further dividing the world between the technologically advanced and the economically stricken. Nia's journey to India begins with her guiding a roup of water bureaucrats and executives through a desert in a hi-tech van. They travel to a village to demonstrate Hydron's new pilot project water pump which dispenses water with a swipe of a pre-paid credit card.

Mirabai, a young Indian woman with a love for children, has left her urban middle-class lyfestyle in Bombay to become a village teacher...

Heartland Content Key: AT (contains adult themes not suitable for children)

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