女主角“昨天”生活在南非祖鲁兰一个遥远的村庄。她在那里的生活并不容易:物资缺乏,也没有现代的便利设备,并且,她的丈夫去了很远的约翰尼斯堡当矿工。但她拥有晴朗的大自然和给她极大喜悦的七岁女儿美丽。这些使昨天在飘摇的生活下获得平衡。但突然间她被诊断出得到爱滋病,必须去远处治疗她的病症。美丽是她的生活重心,并将于一年后入学。而昨天却从未有机会去学校念书,因此她立了一个心愿——希望在美丽入学的第一天,她能与所有其它的母亲在一起,为自己的孩子感到骄傲。 「永不遗忘的美丽」是一部南非影片,主要在描述一位被丈夫传染而罹患爱滋病的母亲昨天,独立在贫瘠的土地上耕作,含辛茹苦地抚养六岁大的爱女美丽长大成人。在死亡威胁下,她要抵抗病魔、照顾已发病的丈夫,还得面对村人无情的排挤,但她告诉自己,在看到女儿上学之前,绝对不能倒下去,坚强的生命力,值得大众欣赏学习。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.