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A Walk to Beautiful
Tuesday, March 3 at 8pm ET/PT on NOVA


A difficult journey that begins in hopelessness and shame for thousands of women in Ethiopia ends in a productive new life in this award-winning documentary airing in its television premier on NOVA. 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 that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but that is now restricted to the poorest regions of the world. Filmed in a starkly beautiful landscape, the film 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."

Producers: Steven Engel and Mary Olive Smith. Director: Mary Olive Smith. Co-producer: Allison Shigo. Co-director: Amy Bucher.