A deep respect and lasting friendship forms between African-American housekeeper Odessa Cotter and her white employer Miriam Thompson as they live through and respond to the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeeper--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.
