Although most of Patwardhan's films have focused on South Asia, his social concerns are international. As a student in North America in the seventies and eighties, he protested against the Vietnam War, worked with Cesar Chavez, and made this film documenting the untenable conditions encountered by Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the Canadian Farmworkers Union. Shot over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers' movement despite the hostile response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization.