In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

Lucy has left the West Indies for a job in New York, but she discovers that her employers' perfect lives are not what they seem.

Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa es una comedia que se desarrolla en la casa de los Ruíz Palacio, una familia adinerada mexicana donde Lupita y Toña trabajan como empleadas domésticas. Mientras la familia prepara un fin de semana en Las Vegas, las empleadas cansadas del incumplimiento de pagos y la falta de respeto de sus patrones, diseñan para ellos un plan muy diferente. Lo que nadie imagina es el gran secreto que esconde la familia.

After their snobby boss Marcela forbids them from attending a wedding in town, housekeepers Martina and Lupita decide to "borrow" Marcela's clothes and go anyway! With Marcela and her friend Marifer in hot pursuit, the two maids begin a laugh-filled journey in the name of love; one that forever changes the lives of all four women.