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Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky travels across the globe to document the ongoing quest to eradicate Polio from the planet in this documentary highlighting the ongoing dangers of a forgotten disease. The largest non-military endeavor in human history, the fight against Polio still rages nearly fifty years after the vaccine for the virus was developed. It has become a disease of the poor, plaguing remote communities in India, where nearly four million people are struggling to keep Polio out of their communities. Some parents, such as those in marginalized Muslim enclaves, refuse to trust the American-manufactured vaccines, while others reject the medicine on political grounds. While UNICEF volunteer Munzareen works around the clock to convince poor families to vaccinate their children, the prospect of reaching the millions of children born in India every month is a daunting one. Additional conversations with Americans surviving the effects of the disease reveal that while America may have largely forgotten about Polio, people continue to suffer from it.