Black woman cuts her hair off

Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.

Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong. Caught in between two worlds, Chérif will have to find his own way out…

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.

On vacation with her gal pals, Lacey's friend Janice is found dead. The other women tell the police she must have fallen, but Lacey is sure they are each covering up a deadly secret that they'll do anything to protect.

After having a bad job interview, a young woman is unhappy with herself and goes to goes to the hairdressers to change her hair. She has her long red hair cut off, but when she leaves the hairdressers she leaves with more than just a haircut.

On the left side filmmaker Mwangi Hutter slowly cuts away her dreadlocks. On the right side Mwangi Hutter wraps her dreadlocks around her face like a mask.

A young woman discovers the dangers of attempting to cut her own bangs.

Bel Davis has been hiding behind wigs for years until her Alopecia is exposed publicly. She uses this experience as a catalyst to break free of the shame she feels towards her baldness.

Afros, braids or corn-rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause as many battles between Black parents and their daughters. To "relax" one's hair into straight tresses or to leave it "natural" inevitably raises questions of conformity and rebellion, pride and identity. Today trend-setting teens proudly reinvent themselves on a daily basis, while career women strive for the right "professional" image, and other women go "natural" as a symbol of comfort in their Blackness. Filmmaker Nadine Valcin meets a range of women as they reveal how their hairstyles relate to their lives and life choices.