Aminata is a curious housekeeper and quite a gossip. She loves telling her friend gossip about Christian and Jeanne, the couple who employs her. To have more stories to tell, she interferes more and more in the lives of these two, until she places the clear proof of Jeanne's husband's infidelity before her eyes. One day, Jeanne is slapped by her husband. Aminata will then do everything to protect her by being in the right place at the right time.

After his mother develops cancer from dépigmentation, Khalilou fights toxic beauty standards. Disguised as Leila, he enters the "Miss Students" pageant, where light skin reigns, to give dark-skinned girls a chance to shine.