Build a movie plot around this: How does Raymond enliven her performances? Gesture with "great hands"
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The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Edith Piaf. [note 3] The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, "Non, je ne regrette rien".The film opens with Edith as a small child in 1918, crying after being teased by other children. Her mother stands across the alley singing, busking for change. Edith's mother writes to her child's father, the acrobat, who is fighting in the trenches of World War I battlefields, informing him that she is leaving Edith with her mother so she can pursue the life of the artist. Her father returns to Paris and scoops up a sick Edith, then in turn leaves the child with his own mother, who is a madam of a bordello in Normandy. Now living as a child in a brothel, surrounded by the often brutal and demeaning business of prostitution, Edith is taken under the wing of the women there, especially Titine, a young troubled redhead who becomes emotionally attached to the little girl. Titine sings to, plays with, and tenderly cares for Edith through travails including an episode of keratitis-induced blindness.Years later, Edith's father returns for her. Despite anguished protests from both Titine and Edith, he takes the child away to join him as he works as a circus acrobat. As Edith is outside cleaning up after dinner one night, she watches a fire eater practicing, and in the flames sees an apparition of St Therese, who assures her that she will always be with hera belief that she carries with her for the rest of her life.When Edith is nine years old, her father leaves the circus after an argument with the manager and begins performing on the streets of Paris. During a lackluster performance of her father's contortionist skills while Edith holds a hat for coins, a passerby asks if Edith is part of the show and, with prompting by her father to "do something" so the half-interested audience doesn't leave,...