A tragedy is unfolding in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha in central India.

A tragedy is unfolding in the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, central India, where crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, spiraling debts and a forbidding bureaucracy are driving farmers to unbearable levels of despair. In 2006, in Vidarbha alone, 1,044 suicides were reported - one suicide every eight hours. WIDE ANGLE captures the tense relations between farmers and illegal money lenders, traveling salesmen hawking expensive "miracle seeds"that often require irrigation few farmers have and a businessman-turned-activist who's staking a political career on the cause of Vidarbha's farmers and farm widows.