It stars Harry Baird as a Black American soldier who is demoted for fraternizing with a white shop clerk (Nicole Berger) in France.

One night, Turner finds himself in a nightclub, where he meets a white French shop clerk named Miriam.

During the drive there, Miriam talks about her working hours as a clerk, and her previous job as a night school teacher.

Images of white protestors holding dehumanizing posters are juxtaposed, while Miriam and Turner sleep together.

After some visiting African-American women convince his commander to lift the restriction, Turner finds Miriam unavailable when he telephones her, and he decides that such amorous adventures are futile.

[3] In 2020, The New Yorker critic Richard Brody described The Story of a Three-Day Pass as being "among the great American films of the sixties.