"This is an eight scene drama portraying Black women reliving their journey of Higher Education and Work-based learning. Black women's voices are centralised reflecting on the complexities and dynamics of institutional power, professional exploitation, silencing, subordination and non-transformative education. Black feminist standpoint theory with an autoethnographic presentation invites the reader into the camaraderie, emotions, tears and laughter of a cohort of mature Black healthcare workers engaging in a foundation degree with a promised promotion. NHS workforce shortfall has been an issue for the NHS since its inception. The author captures the voices of the women, weaves in her own accounts and sets them in fictional locations; using cultural sayings, Black philosophers and Black music in a creative way, this work offers a platform from which to start discussions on Black women's labour in the NHS"--

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