California dreamin'

Ellen was born in 1941 into a Jewish family in Baltimore and as a child she dreamed of becoming a singer. Her voice is incredible, but her eccentric and endearing personality hides a major flaw: Ellen is bulimic. And fat. Too fat to ever hope to become a star. Yet when, at 19, she became Cass Elliot, it was to escape her future as a pastrami seller and try her luck in New York! There, caught up in the folk music of the time, Cass falls in love with Denny, the singer of the Journeymen...