For Black people in France, the intersections of race, class, immigration, and nationality all color their upbringing and everyday lives. Mariannes Noires follows seven French women of African and Caribbean heritage of various professions and try to extract what binds them beyond their Blackness. They are dancers, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals, and as they share their worlds with the camera, a commonality emerges: as much as these women are Black, they are grounded, proud, and unequivocally French. Their Frenchness is rooted in cultural and aesthetic differences, roots that their country is still grappling with and is slow to accept. Mariannes Noires is a mosaic of seven narratives that raises the veil on a multicultural France.