A newly divorced European university assistant/professor on an exchange program, who when looking for a room comes to the door of a colored family, takes on the 15 hrs a week job as a nanny and household help that comes with the room so as not to seem racist.
An american colored family with a bossy grandmother, a divorced son and a grandchild, struggling within their family and with their identity in a modern world, are being subjected to being bosses and living with someone well outside their culture and experience.
After failings on all sides, it ends in friendship between the women and love with the professor and the son.