Through the worldwide mission of the Flying Eye Hospital by ORBIS International, the only airplane eye hospital in the world, stories of three different countries unfold the heartrending and heartwarming people's lives. A blind teenager in China begs on the street and offers his kidney to pay for an eye surgery. In India a local doctor must convince suspicious parents that their children will go blind without medical treatment. And in Ethiopia, a devoted son brings his blind father to the capital in hopes of receiving a free operation. A each faces the challenges of modern health care, traditional beliefs, financial reality, and social unrest, it becomes clear that treating blindness requires much more than a medical procedure.
