Harry Baird stars as a “good Negro” American soldier who is given a three-day pass from his commanding officer while stationed in France. He heads to Paris where he meets a white French girl with whom he engages in a taboo liaison. A successful blending of the “passing” Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and the more improvisational independent films of the 1960s which presented a more truthful representation of race, this freewheeling work from Van Peebles (Watermelon Man, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song) is one of his best.