United States

• Emma Mae

SHE'S A GIRL FROM OUT OF TOWN AND SHE MEANS TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS!
Emma Mae arrives in Los Angeles from Mississippi to stay with her aunt and against all the odds is soon accepted in the community due to her tough, no-nonsense ways. When she meets Jesse, the local layabout and drug addict, she falls hopelessly in love. It is to be an affair that will change her life forever! After a gang fight, Jesse and his partner in crime, Zeke, beat up two policemen and seek refuge at Big Daddy's place. Emma Mae knows her place and stands by her man but when the police circle their hideout, they are torn apart by violent circumstance. So Emma Mae mobilises her friends to raise money to get them both out of jail. She sets up a car wash, but the white residents of the area are scared of her success in the racially divided community and close her down. Angry and desperate Emma Mae resorts to the one course of action that no one expects. She decides to rob a bank. But fate intervenes with shock repercussions and the only way Emma Mae can regain her self-respect is to take a black sister's revenge! Jamaa Fanaka, director of the critically acclaimed Penitentiary and Penitentiary II, does it again. Black Sister's Revenge is an exciting and warmly comic human drama as it probes deep into current social mores and the facts behind today's headlines. And with music by H. B. Barnum follows the great tradition set by The Harder They Come.