The main rule of a maid: you are a ghost, you must never be seen. Speak only when spoken to and in hushed, short words. Madeleine has lived a life of silence. Born from a line of parlor maids, she has been drilled on the ins and outs of service and has never had a voice of her own. After a humiliating accident, she is thrown out the back door with no hopes of a future. Two years of street begging and grime later, she is accepted into a desperate family who’s on the brink of bankruptcy and need a cheap, but well trained maid to impress possible in-laws of their troublesome son, Harry. The only problem is that Harry will do anything to keep Madeleine from being successful at her job.