A black woman goes to work for a racist old widow, generating a great conflict, sometimes tense and dramatic, and other times funny. The two begin battles on the chessboard, which, in the film are pictured in a magical form, as the pair are transported onto a giant chessboard, as a metaphor for the duel between the black and white people. These duels on the chessboard will determine the twists in the plot, as well as the end.