 The film received Golden Globe supporting acting nominations for Beau Bridges and Abbey Lincoln.Ivy Moore, a 26-year-old African American woman, has worked as a maid for the white, upper-middle-class Austin family of Long Island, New York for nine years, since arriving from Florida where she was raised by her grandmother.Despite being treated as a part of the family, she announces her decision to leave her job and go to secretarial school in order to improve her situation.