MEMBER OF THE CLUB is a one-hour documentary about New Orleans's black aristocracy as seen through the eyes of an African American teenage debutante and her matriarchic family. At the center of the film is seventeen-year old Marisa Mitchell, a debutante who has been in training for her role as a Mardi Gras Queen ever since infancy. Member of the Club provides not only a window into the largely unknown world of the black social clubs of the South but is also a dramatic coming of age story that sheds light on race, class and the powerful desire of an American family to belong.