The Help

Mississippi, early 1960s. College graduate Skeeter has had enough of her job at the local paper and dreams of a career as a writer. Motivated by her pronounced sense of justice, she decides to challenge the conventions of the time by carrying out interviews with Afro-American women who have spent their lives looking after white, middle-class children. She finds her first interview partner in the good-natured Aibileen, whose openness soon encourages other women to recount their experiences, sometimes tragic but often comic. Skeeter’s project, however, meets with hostility amongst the white population which remains committed to race segregation. The breaking of a social code brings with it certain consequences…