The show airs today (May 13) on NOVA (PBS). I'm staying in to watch it. In cowtown it airs at 8pm on KSPS (ch 14). Here's a synopsis from the website:
A Walk to Beautiful
A powerful story of healing and hope for women in Ethiopia devastated by childbirth injuries
To tell the story of women hiding in shame in a remote corner of Africa posed inherent problems in the making of "A Walk to Beautiful." How could we show their loneliness and isolation while at the same time time entering their intimate space? How would we follow a woman smelling of urine on a long bus ride to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, and remain true to the experience she and so many like her have endured? At the end of a day of shooting, how should we respond to 10 people suffering from various illnesses lined up outside the family compound hoping to get help from us—foreigners with cars and money?
Getting at the truth is our goal as documentarians, of course. But by virtue of our presence—crew, camera, microphone—the truth becomes invariably distorted. For decades, nonfiction filmmakers have confronted this conundrum, and our film shoot in Ethiopia was no exception. Could we capture the harsh reality these voiceless women experience?
