Kohiya No Hitobito

After rebelling against an abusive John, a Parisian escort is locked in a seedy hotel room in Lyon, where she is forced to submit to the sadomasochistic whims of a parade of clients.

At a lingerie evening, between trying on the items the women tell tales of past conquests.

Darby, a blind girl, and Joan, her elder sister. Joan falls for Yorke, a scamp, leading to her marriage with Yorke's uncle, the family's benefactor.

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.

13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.

Follows British and American Black characters of different generations navigating their way through today's society, offering a critical perspective on the state of the nation.