Smile Train is a nonprofit organization and charity providing corrective surgery for children with cleft lips and palates.

[2] The charity worked with the then-American and Chinese presidents, George H. W. Bush and Jiang Zemin, in the planning of Smile Train's first operation in China.

[10] In a 2008 New York Times article, economist Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame indicated that the organization's model and its technological innovations "likely make Smile Train one of the most productive charities, dollar for deed, in the world.

[12] The film shows the story of a poor girl in rural India whose life is transformed when she receives free surgery to correct her cleft lip.

[14] In 2009, Givewell could not assess the impact of Smile Train's activities based on the charity's 2008 tax form and other publicly accessible information.