About the title
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett. The American South, the 1960s. Skeeter has just graduated from university and returns home, to the sleepy town of Jackson, where nothing ever happens. She dreams of becoming a writer, of breaking out into the wider world. But it's not proper for a respectable Southern girl to indulge such foolish illusions — a respectable girl should get married and tend to the household. Wise Aibileen, thirty years older than Skeeter, has served in white households her whole life; she has raised seventeen children and long ago stopped expecting anything from life, for her heart was broken after the death of her only son. Minny is the best cook in all of Jackson, and also the sauciest maid in town. Her sharp tongue has gotten her into trouble more than once. Minny never stays in one place for long. But it's best not to cross Minny, even for the most arrogant white ladies. Two black maids and an inexperienced white girl are united by one thing — a heightened sense of justice and a desire to