Two children are born at the same time on the same day. The parents of the first are wealthyand well educated and have anxiously awaited their arrival of their first-born for years. Their child, a boy, is bright, healthy, andattravtive, with a future full of promise. Surely Destiny has smiled upon him.
The second child enters into an entirely different world. He is born to a mother who was abandoned while pregnant. In her poverty she feels little enthusiasmto rear her sickly new offspring. The road ahead is fraught with difficulties and hardships, and to rise above them will not be easy.
The world is full of disparities like these, blatant inequalities that often provoke questions: "How could Providence be so unfair? What did John and Jane do to have their son born blind? They're good people. God is so unkind!"