Diouana has come to work as a live-in nanny for a French family that had already employed her to look after their children when they lived in Dakar. We first see and hear a large white steamship as it glides inside the sea wall sounding its horn, and then the daily workings of the busy port, as the bustle of passengers disembark, gather bags, and greet families against the backdrop of cranes, railway tracks, and cargo containers. In the opening scenes of the film La Noire de…, we arrive with Diouana, a young Senegalese woman played by actress Mbissine Thérèse Diop, at the port of Marseille, in southern France.
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