A joint French-Ivory Coast production, Black and White in Color is a satire set during the early years of World War I in French West Africa, where colonists live in relative harmony with their white neighbors in German West Africa, a few miles away. News of the war comes to the colony late, which only increases the fervor with which the French go after the Germans in an unsuccessful attempt to storm their garrison. The story turns on one Hubert Fresnoy--a geologist fresh out of Paris normal school and quite out of place at this remote site--and the ease with which he is transformed into a martinet for a non-existent cause, bullying the hitherto amused and impassive natives to his side.