Kavi is a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.

Bonded labor, a form of slavery, often occurs when people are tricked into taking loans from creditors who have no intention of letting them repay the loan. The creditor then uses violent intimidation to keep his workers slaving with no hope of escape. According to Anti-Slavery International, a person becomes a bonded laborer when his or her labor is demanded as a means of repayment for a loan. The value of their work is invariably greater than the original sum of money borrowed. Millions of people are held in bonded labour around the world.

“Kavi” is Gregg Helvey's USC thesis film. It probably is the first fictional film of its kind to expose the reality of bonded labor as a form of modern slavery.