Black Towel records a brief intimate encounter between a brown man and a white Austrian woman.
What begins as an innocent exchange of polite talk and banter over drinks and cigarettes quickly turns into casual sex, which albeit frivolous, portends far darker issues of racial prejudice.
The film, spanning roughly twenty two minutes, attempts to understand perceived notions and widely held beliefs about immigrants, color, cultural schisms and race. Though it doesn’t claim to be the definitive tract on the subject, the Black towel serves as a micro-narrative on multiculturalism and how an indigenous populace views the phenomenon.