Yesterday

Yesterday is a 2004 South African movie written and directed by Darrell Roodt. It tells the story of a young mother, called Yesterday , who discovers she has AIDS. Her husband, a migrant mine laborer, who originally gave her the disease, rejects her. Her ambition becomes to live long enough to see her daughter, Beauty, go to school. This film is the first commercial feature-length production in Zulu. Yesterday is a Zulu mother living with her 7-year-old daughter, Beauty, in their rural village of Rooihoek , in Zululand, South Africa. Every day of her life is spent in the hard work of tilling... the field to plant enough food for them, fetching water, cutting firewood and hauling it home, all while also trying to keep her daughter stimulated and occupied. She strikes up a friendship with the new teacher who arrives in the village. Yesterday is plagued by a persistent cough and feelings of weakness. She goes to the local clinic, which is an extremely long walk for her and Beauty. She waits all day in the long queue to see the doctor, only to be turned away at the end of the day without having seen the doctor.
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