Black Rose relates to a person in love, to a person heartbroken, to a person accused, ridiculed, misconstrued by the society, time and again, to a person in slavery, oppression, and to people who remain humane and compassionate, despite all they have been through. In it, Sheefah also explores how some cultural norms and religious sentiments are sometimes used to hinder a woman's growth, alter her dreams and kill her ambitions.