Aibileen Clark is just a maid who has spent her entire life raising kids and it has lost her only kid. Minny Jackson is a African American maid who has regularly violated her companies despite her dire need for jobs and her family's struggles with money. And Eugenia"Skeeter" Phelan is a white woman who has recently transferred back home after graduating college to learn her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to spell out how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves round"the help". Yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of lines.