Summer Holidays
“Stay with me baby, please, stay with me baby, oh, stay with me baby, i can´t go on,” heart-breaking lyrics from the American soul legend Lorraine Ellison, in playback, sung by Kurdwin Ayub. Left alone in a room, which brings to mind a hotel room, a dainty performer sings and dances her heart out. In reality, she is at the house of relatives in Iraq, in which the artist has been stuck for three weeks. Just as disproportional as the sprawling wedding dress is Lorraine Ellison´s voluminous, deep voice, an ironic contrast to Kurdwin Ayub´s fragile, girlish body.
