Skeeter je djevojka s juga koja se vraća s fakulteta odlučna da postane pisac. Okreće živote svojih prijatelja i mali Mississippi naopačke kada odluči intervjuirati crnkinje koje su provele svoje živote brinući za istaknute južnjačke obitelji. Aibileen je Skeeterina najbolja prijateljica, domaćica, koja se na užas njenih prijatelja u usko povezanoj crnačkoj zajednici usudila progovoriti prva. Unatoč tome što njihovo dugotrajno poznanstvo visi u zraku, ona i Aibileen nastavljaju suradnju, a uskoro dolaze i druge sumještanke koje žele ispričati svoju priču.
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.
After tragedy, a young girl falls for a boy from a powerful political dynasty. But the opposition that's current, and secrets they hold in the past threaten to destroy them and unravel the city of New Orleans.
A short story of paralysis and waste set in Colfax, Louisiana.