![]() ![]() ![]() At 17, she leaves for Ethiopia, where she falls in love with a quixotic doctor named Aziz (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Meanwhile, Lily is left behind at the shrine and its spiritual leader, Great Abdal, takes her in as one of his own and becomes Lily’s caretaker. The film never shows how the parents were murdered, but it can only be assumed that the parents were tragically killed while trying to buy drugs. Unfortunately, her parents left her behind while intoxicated on drugs and never came back. Seven-year-old Lily is brought to the town of Bilal al Habash by her nomadic free-spirited parents to be blessed by a revered Sufi master. 13 Shares Based on the Camilla Gibb novel of the same name, the film Sweetness in the Belly tells the story of an Anglo-Irish woman named Lily (Dakota Fanning), who was abandoned in Africa as a child and raised in Morocco as a devout Muslim. ![]()
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