The film deals with a variety of contemporary themes such as sexual freedom, racial tensions, and political radicalism from the perspective of a young upper-class Italian woman.

[1] Nerosubianco shooting began in October 1967 and it was premiered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.

Barbara (Anita Sanders) has accompanied her husband Paolo (Nino Segurini) to London.

He leaves her at Hyde Park for his business transactions and Barbara starts sightseeing, soon to realise that an African American man (Terry Carter) is luring her.

She sees it as an opportunity for an adventurous outreach to a new world and as her observations intermingle with her fantasies, she begins to question her own life.