A difficult journey that begins in hopelessness and shame for thousands of women in Ethiopia ends in a productive new life. Shot 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". 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 is now relegated to the poorest regions of the world. In Ethiopia alone, there are an estimated 100,000 women suffering from untreated fistulas. Women with small pelvises are most at risk, since there often is not room for the baby to emerge during birth. The result can be an obstructed labour that may last up to ten days, a stillborn baby and a trauma-induced hole, or fistula, in the vaginal wall that produces chronic incontinence. The women profiled are treated as outcasts in their villages, where they are shunned by family and made to live alone. One woman admits to contemplating suicide. By chance, they learn that there are other women who share their affliction and that the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital exists to help them, if they can manage to walk for hours to the nearest road, find public transport to the capital and then search out the hospital in a strange and forbidding city. Once there, they enter a haven that they never imagined, surrounded by women like themselves and a medical staff of Western and African doctors who treat them like human beings, not outcasts. The documentary tells the women's story through their own eyes and voices.