In 1925, the young African-American vaudeville dancer Josephine Baker left the United States and set off for Europe. She fled racial segregation and tried her luck in Paris. Her “danse sauvage” caused a sensation, and she became an overnight sensation in the French capital and soon around the world. But she is also famous today for her political activism. Using rare, previously unpublished archival footage, the film tells the extraordinary story of Josephine Baker—her evolution from a dancer in a banana skirt to a political figure who, in 1963, was the only woman to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington. It is the story of the political awakening of the first Black superstar.