Deep in the Indian countryside at a local cotton field, the teenagers discover that some of the workers there are as young as nine. Rather than attend school like their Oxford contemporaries, these Indian children spend their days bent double over the fields working for 60 pence a day. The girls in the field show the teenagers how they pollinate each cotton plant individually by hand. They do this twelve hours a day, seven days a week, come rain or shine.

Martha and Diko are further stunned when an Indian worker explains that only the girls do this, not boys or men, as it is felt that the males cannot bend down for as long a time as the females. From this moment on, it really begins to hit home to the Oxford threesome how different their lives could have been had they simply been born somewhere else.