A bad history of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old miss who look in Johannes Jan Vermeer’s picture of the same statute title. Set in seventeenth century Netherlands, Griet is use by Jan Vermeer as a maid to care for his six child, his covetous pregnant married woman and his incommunicative mother-in-law. tension originate when Jan Vermeer’s married woman suspect familiarity between her hubby and the miss - and so flood tide, when the married woman detect that Griet borrow her cherished pearl earring to sit for the now celebrated portrayal.