The document summarizes the movie The Help, which is set in 1960s Mississippi and focuses on a group of maids who are mistreated by the white families they work for. A young white woman named Skeeter decides to write a book from the perspective of the maids, chronicling their stories of discrimination and abuse. Skeeter gets the book published, which becomes a hit. She then shares the profits with the two maids who first contributed their stories.