Green Book takes us back to the early 1960s. The plot begins with a New Yorker, Tony Lip, who finds himself unemployed while the nightclub where he works in is temporarily closed for renovations. To find a job to support his family, he is hired by Dr. Don Shirley, a renowned Jamaican-American pianist, to be his driver and bodyguard during an eight-week tour to the Deep South. The story sets the background when racial segregation was highly forced, making the trips dangerous for a black man, especially Dr. Don Shirley.