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The movie begins with Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) writing “The Help” on the top of a paper. She asks a black woman named Aibileen (Viola Davis) about her birthplace, and how many “white babies” she’s raised. Skeeter asks what it’s like to raise a white baby while her own baby was at home being watched by someone else. At this point we begin a flashback in Aibeleen’s head.

Aibileen (in v.o.) begins to describe her employers -- the Leefolts. They have a 3-year-old daughter named Mae Mobley. Elizabeth Leefolt does not know how to love her daughter so Aibileen is the one who basically raises her. Every day Aibeleen tells her “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” Aibileen gets Mae Mobley to go on the toilet. Elizabeth yanks Mae Mobley off without noticing, because she has a bridge club coming to her house. Aibeleen looks sad for Mae Mobley.

We cut to Hilly Holbrook, (Bryce Dallas Howard) her mother, and her black maid Minny (Octavia Spencer) leaving their house to go to bridge club. Minny is holding a chocolate pie.

We then cut to Skeeter, entering the office of the Jackson Journal for a job interview. She shows a reference from Elaine Stein, which her interviewer points out is a rejection letter. Skeeter points out that Elaine Stein said that Skeeter has promise and will eventually hire her (Elaine Stein works for Harper and Row in New York.)Skeeter is hired by the Jackson Journal to write the Miss Myrna housekeeping column.

Skeeter drives into bridge club and hugs her friends Hilly and Elizabeth. They welcome her back (she has just returned from Ole Miss.) Aibeleen fields a call from a Miss Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain) who wants to help with the benefit. Hilly and Elizabeth laugh at her, she is obviously very tacky. Celia asks Aibileen if she knows any black maid who could help her out. Aibileen says no. The girls play bridge and Hilly looks uncomfortable. Elizabeth tells her she can go to the bathroom. Hilly refuses to use a toilet that Aibileen may have sat on. Hilly talks about the bill she is proposing: The Home Health Sanitation Initiative. This is a bill that would require white homes to have an outside toilet for the Negro help. This entire conversation is within earshot of Aibileen. Skeeter asks Elizabeth if Aibileen could help her with the Miss Myrna columns. Elizabeth says as long as it doesn’t interfere with Aibileen's chores. Skeeter asks Aibileen for help with the column. Aibileen asks her why Skeerer can’t ask her own maid, Constantine for help. Skeeter looks said as she tells Aibileen that Constantine quit on them. She then asks Aibileen if Aibileen wishes she could change things. Aibileen looks away.

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