Runaway Grooms is an exposé of the disturbing trend of Indian brides being married for their dowries and then abandoned by their new husbands who flee to North America where they have already established citizenship. The bride fulfills her family’s hopes for her to leave India for a new life in North America, where the groom now lives. But in their eagerness to please their son-in-law, the bride’s family has failed to realize this traditionally arranged marriage is just an elaborate scam, a set up for extortion.