Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps
four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the African
experience of her earlier years. In a red one records her political
life, her disillusionment with Communism. In a yellow one she writes a
novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a
blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American
writer, threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all
four books together in a golden notebook.