Raymonde El Bidaoia

Raymonde diva queen enigma inspiration survivor widow woman and mother Armed with a camera Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger You know daughter Morocco is a kind of therapy Raymonde says and for the first time they embark on a journey together from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the dunes of Ashdod and back to Morocco where the mother became the legendary Raymonde El Bidaoia a worldfamous Moroccan singer As they journey Yael discovers a woman who articulates her weaknesses and the complexities of her choices with keen selfawareness even when mother and daughter are transposed twined together by guilt admiration pain and above all else limitless love and music