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.

Tuesday, 8/28/07 from 10-11 p.m. ET