So Eugenia, Phelan is a young white woman
the
Emma Stone, who wants to become a
. She takes a job at the local newspaper called the Jackson Journal to write a
about cleaning and giving
household tips, but what she really wants to
is something
meaningful and important. So Eugenia's family is a rich family in Mississippi, who
owns a
that employs many
maids in the area. Constantine was Eugenie's family's
and helped
raise her as a little girl, but Eugenia comes home from university to find that her mother has
fired Constantine because she was
of what the people in Jackson
of the family.