La Putain Respectueuse.

La Putain respectueuse (1946), translated into English as The Respectful Prostitute, is a one-act play Sartre based on an American lynching case. Set in a town in the American South, it follows Lizzie, a Northern prostitute pressured by a powerful senator's family to sign a false statement accusing a Black man of assault so as to cover the crime of a white man who has killed. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War as Sartre was turning his existentialist thought toward political engagement, the play is a sharp indictment of racism and of the moral cowardice that lets injustice stand, and it became one of his most frequently staged dramatic works.