The bitter Edsen trades Eleanor room and board for housework and belittles her with daily insults. Edsen, unaware that the woman's "boarding house" is actually a brothel. Although she cares greatly for Eleanor, Mama Holiday cannot offer her housing at the estate and sends her to church friend Ms. Brutally raped one day by a disgruntled, drunken customer, a traumatized Eleanor seeks solace with her mother, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy New York family. In her delirium, Billie remembers her life in Baltimore as a fifteen-year-old named Eleanor Fagan: Living as an unwelcome guest with relatives, Eleanor is a brothel maid, who spends her free time alone singing along to blues records. Arrested in New York City in 1936 for drug use, jazz singer Billie Holiday is suffering from heroin withdrawal when she is locked in a padded prison cell.
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