The extraordinary life of Edith Piaf.
Edith Gassion is born in Bellevue to a life of dejection and poverty and seems doomed to live it till her dying day. Yet, somewhere between all the scurrying about, the abuse, the mud and the market, she finds herself singing La Marseillaise to a street crowd and announces herself to the world that a star is born. Spotted by Louis the cabaret manager, she earns the nickname piaf, meaning sparrow, and she begins to pull herself up into the glitzy domain of Parisian socialites but the trappings of fame would serve to damage her capacity to perform to the waiting world. Are talent, love and pain the same things spelt differently for different people?
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