''Brown Sugar'' is a film that follows the evolving relationship between Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), an attractive young woman who has just been appointed the editing of the Hip hop culture magazine ''XXL (magazine)'', and Dre (Taye Diggs), an Artists and repertoire for Millennium Records. They have been bound together since their early childhood. The news that Dre is preparing to be married to Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), a successful entertainment attorney, sends Sidney into a subconscious tizzy.