60 年代美國南部，黑人女傭愛比蓮 (維奧拉戴維斯 飾) 和米妮 (奧緹華史賓莎 飾) 努力工作卻得不到白人主人的尊重，反而接連遭受歧視與剝削！生於富裕白人家庭、大學畢業後於報社當撰稿員的史嘉特 (愛瑪史東 飾) 在機緣巧合下，決定以愛比蓮和米妮的角度寫出種種不公平待遇，之後亦感染更多女傭勇於抒發自己的感受。這些故事最終被結集成書，化成了一股改變不公社會現象的力量，而三人也發展出一段跨越種族的珍貴情誼。

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.