Black Girl…originally titled La Noire De, is a story of a young Senegalese woman, Diouana, who travels to France with a white couple expecting to do the same work as she did previously as a governess. When she arrives the couple is actually expecting her to be the housemaid and the mistress of the house treats her rather harshly. She grows frustrated with the treatment and the expectations of the couple.
The director, Ousmane Sembene, uses the tense relationship of Diouana and her employers to make a statement about colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa.