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The autobiographical novel Black is a Colour is the first book by the Swiss writer Griselidis Real, which covers events from her life in the early 60s. After a failed marriage, the mother of four finds herself in a difficult situation: unemployment, poverty, tuberculosis, and threats from social welfare to take her children away. In the hope of a better life, she flees to Munich with her children and her black American lover, who suffers from schizophrenic attacks but does not give up trying to study medicine. Without money and documents, she faces a difficult life in Germany, which is hostile to illegal immigrants. In order to earn a living for her children, she first wanders the streets at night, risking danger every time, and then ends up in an underground brothel. The friendship with American black soldiers, among whom she finds sincere friends and fantastic lovers, the friendship with a gypsy family that miraculously survived the death camps, and later the help of her fellow prostitutes and other disadvantaged people thrown to the social margins - these are the things that help her survive even in the most critical moments of her life, as Grizelidis, the heroine of this confession, repeatedly admits.