The story takes place in Mississippi in the southern United States in 1962, where society is still deeply shrouded in the shadow of "black slavery". Black servants still exist in many families and have encountered unequal treatment. The 22-year-old white girl Skeet Phelanis an ordinary girl who grew up in this land. Today, she has completed her university studies and returned to her hometown. Having received a good education and enlightenment, she has always dreamed of becoming an outstanding writer. But in the eyes of mothers who are still conservative in their hometown, a good marriage is the most reliable destination for a woman. Skeeter was brought up by a black maid since she was a child, and the black maid is therefore her good friend to confide in her concerns.
Clever, capable, restrained and calm, the black servant Aibilyn Clark, who had brought up 17 white children, worked as a servant in Skeeter's friend's house and took care of her two-year-old daughter. Another black servant, Minnie, is Ai Bilin’s best friend. She has a good cooking skill, but his pungent personality makes her often lose her job. The kind-hearted Skeeter has always treated black servants like family, but she found that black servants who are white people with older children often receive unequal treatment regardless of their life or attitude. Even the right to share toilets with white people was denied.
Skeeter, who was deeply unhappy about this, decided to embark on a bold writing plan: interview the black servants working in white homes about their hardships and experiences, and write a book. Help them launch a civil rights movement with a calm and equally powerful action.
