This film is about a young South African woman, Yesterday, who finds out she’s HIV positive. Even though she is devastated by the news, she works hard to support her daughter, while her husband is away in Johannesburg. While the movie never explicitly goes into how Yesterday gets the disease, it is assumed she got it from her husbad, who most likely got it while working for months at a time in the city. This was an excellent, moving film, and it shows the general lack of education about HIV and AIDS in Africa, and how very little is done both to prevent and treat it.
Rating: ***+