NOVA

Season 35 Episode 16: A Walk to Beautiful

In this award-winning documentary, a difficult journey that begins in hopelessness and shame for thousands of women in Ethiopia ends in a productive new life. The film tells the personal stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth. Filmed in a starkly beautiful landscape, the documentary juxtaposes the isolated lives of village women who are outcasts because of their medical condition, with the faraway hospital that offers a miracle after a long and arduous trek—a "walk to beautiful."

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

53

Episodes:

1020

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1974

IMDb:

7.0