Yesterday

Year: 2004

Actors: Leleti Khumalo, Matthew Monika, Nandi Nyembe, Kenneth Khambula

Duration: 90 min

A woman's journey. In a Zulu village, Yesterday is a cheerful mother with an inquisitive five-year-old child, Beauty. Yesterday has a persistent cough, and after several attempts to see the doctor at a regional clinic, she gets a diagnosis. She goes immediately to Jo'burg, where her husband is a miner. Then she must deal with consequences. Her singular motivation is to see that Beauty enrolls in school the next fall. The film begins and ends with Yesterday walking on a road.—

Genre: Action   Drama