Pioneering animator Ralph Bakshi uses his grotesquely beautiful and hallucinatory chiaroscuro cartoon stylings to create a work of pure provocation the likes of which has rarely been seen since. Censored and squashed by all sides of the political spectrum upon its release, the film is an incendiary satire of white america and blaxploitation, making use of the grotesque archetypes and caricatures of black people found throughout racist American art, taking them out of their original context and placing them in a modern story about revolution and retribution that viscerally evokes the madhouse that is the history of race in America.