Aibileen Clark is a black maid in 1962 Jackson Mississippi, raisin her seven-teenth white child.  She always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can longer bite back.  Her friend Minny Jackson has certainly never  held her tonque or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite skeeter Phelan has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lamen, no husband, no mally sheeter would find solace in Constatine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inesplicably disappeared.

Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a preject that could forever alter their destinies and the life or a small town to write, in secret. a tell all boock about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South ....