While the corporate world has been debating on the serious issue of granting period leave to women who experience severe pain as part of it's HR policies, the women in the sugar fields of Beed district In rural Maharashtra face a traumatising future thanks to the harsh rules of the sugar industry.

Anant Mahadevan's Bitter Sweet is about the lives of poor women who seem to have no way out but to remove their womb to avoid the pain and penalties when they are forced to take 3 to 4 days off from the sugar fields.