Dia Hadid

It was a miserable arranged marriage.

H says her conservative Muslim family didn't let her come home.

She'd shamed them for seeking a divorce.

Without a home, she couldn't care for her two children.

She says she moved in with a man who offered her shelter.

But when he lost his job, he pestered her for rent.

H had no money and no skills.

And a girlfriend told her, you're young and you're pretty.

Sell your eggs.

Lots of girls do it.

I've done it.

H was confused.

It sounded like sex work.

Like most Indian women we meet for this story, she'd never been taught about the human body's reproductive plumbing.

Her friend told her,

Producer Shweta Desai translates.

Despite India's latest law banning the sale of eggs, the demand continues to be enormous.

Fertility clinics and academics tell us it's because women are marrying later, but they still want to have children.

So they're turning to the fertility industry for help.

At a time when taboos about fertility are shifting, Indian celebrities are openly talking about seeking help to have babies, and there are screwball Bollywood movies like this one called Good News.