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.