The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
london, england
france
paris, france
brothel
south africa
pneumonia
domestic life
racism
poverty
prostitution
humiliation
exhibition
aristocrat
colonialism
anatomist
african woman
sexually transmitted disease