Yesterday lives in Rooihoek, a remote village in South Africa's Zululand. Her everyday life is not easy – there's little money, no modern conveniences, and her husband is away in Johannesburg working as a miner – but she possesses a sunny nature, and takes great joy in her 7-year-old daughter, Beauty. The precarious balance of Yesterday's life is suddenly threatened when she is diagnosed with AIDS. Yesterday never had the chance to go to school herself, and so she sets her sights on a single goal: to be with Beauty on her first day of class, along with all the other proud mothers. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa, YESTERDAY is an eloquent, unsentimental and beautiful film that quietly builds an overwhelming emotional force. The first international film ever made in the Zulu language.
