Nowadays, due to the increasing
competition in the fashion industry,
selling cosmetics has become extremely difficult.
However, for our protagonist, Nick, everything is a piece
of cake. Recently, because of an accident, he
has got a unique ability, with the help of which
he can read other women’s minds. He uses this
ability to tap into their thoughts, and know
their likes and dislikes. In this way, he is able
to sell just about anything. With that being said,
life was not always easy for Nick. To know how it
all changed, let’s rewind to a few months back,
starting with our protagonist’s introduction.
Nick is an executive marketing officer,
who plys his trade in a large company in Shanghai.
He is an excellent employee, who always receives
the best results for the company. However, there
is one slight problem, Nick is a narcissist. He
thinks highly of himself and also believes that
all girls like him. Actually, Nick has always
been this way, right from his childhood. Even
as a kid, he used to flirt with older women,
so that he could get money from them. As Nick
grew older, he became a playboy and started
having one-night affairs with women. He even
started calling himself the ‘God’s gift to women’
Nick was married to a rich woman named Gigi, but
their relationship didn’t last long because of
his extravagant lifestyle. He has a teen daughter,
Alex, but the little girl is always cold to him,
as he has been absent throughout her life. Apart
from this, Nick has several other women in his
life. For instance, he lives in his house with
his maid; Tammi, who takes care of his entire
schedule. Also, a girl named Lola who works at
his favorite coffee shop, and also happens to
be his crush. Despite being a virtuoso in
attracting women and sleeping with them,
Nick is oblivious to their psyche. This is a huge
disadvantage for him as women are becoming the
fastest growing consumer group in China. And
since he has no knowledge of how they feel,
selling products to them has become a challenging
task. Nick finally realizes that he is in trouble
when his boss; Dan, hires a woman named Darcy
for the position of the company’s new creative
director. Nick was sure that the position would
become his, but because of his lack of knowledge
on women psyche, he has been disregarded.
Meanwhile, we get to know that Darcy is one
of the best marketing officers in the country,
and has a reputation of being daunting to men.
One day, Nick calls his ex-wife, who is on
the verge of getting remarried. However,
instead of congratulating her, he simply asks
about his daughter. Gigi informs him that she
will be going on a fortnight long honeymoon with
her new husband, and asks Nick to take care of
their daughter; Alex, till she comes back. Despite
being a terrible father, Nick loves his daughter
very much, but when he learns that she has made
a new boyfriend, he becomes upset. However,
Alex doesn’t care about his opinion, as he has
never been there for her when it mattered.
In the next scene, it is the first day
of work for Darcy. She gathers everyone
and delivers an inspiring speech, promising to
help the company tap into the women’s consumer
market. She then hands all the employees
a box of feminine products, and asks them
to come up with ideas to sell them. The box
contains different products like waxing kit,
pregnancy test, lipstick, bath beads, etc.
Later at home, a desperate Nick tries to
brainstorm ideas on how to sell the feminine
products, but can’t come up with any. Just then,
a thought comes into his mind; in order to
know a woman, he has to become a woman. He
then notices his daughter’s phone and plays
some songs from her playlist. After this, he
tries several of her products and clothes, while
drinking alcohol. While he is at it, Alex suddenly
walks in with her boyfriend. Embarrassed by the
incident, she immediately sends her boyfriend,
and confronts her father for going through her
things. Nick tries to explain that he was just
trying to find some ideas, but the little girl
has none of it and goes straight to her bed. Even
after she is gone, Nick continues brainstorming
ideas for the marketing campaign, but only ends
up being drunk. As he is wearing high heels, he
accidentally slips and falls into his bathtub,
which is filled with water. To make matters worse,
his fish-bulb also falls into the tub, which
electrocutes him, rendering him unconscious.
When he wakes up in the hospital the next day, he
finds a nurse looking after him. Surprisingly, he
overhears her thoughts, where she is complaining
about his unhygienic lifestyle. Nick is startled
by the strange occurrence, but he doesn’t think
much of it and continues with his day. Later,
he heads to a park to clear his mind. However,
all he can hear are the thoughts of random women.
One woman is angry with her partner while another
is scared of becoming a lesbian, as she just
made out with a girl. All this terrorizes Nick,
and he rushes to his office, but it gets even
worse there. He learns that his female co-workers
think badly of him. One woman calls him a jerk
while another makes fun of his appearance. With
all this going around, Nick tries to rush to his
doctor, but a co-worker drags him to the scheduled
meeting. There, he cannot stop thinking about his
new disease, but after a while, he uses it to read
the women’s thoughts and impress Darcy.
In the evening, when Nick returns home,
he walks in on Alex making out with her
boyfriend. Like any other father, he gets angry,
and orders the boy to leave, but this just
enrages Alex, and she says terrible things
about her dad in her mind. After Alex leaves,
Nick starts drinking heavily, as he is fed up
with women talking bad about him. He goes outside
with the same fish-bulb and electrocutes himself,
thinking that it will bring him back to
normalcy, but the plan fails terribly.
The following morning, Nick wakes up to find his
maid; Tammi, cleaning the house. Surprisingly,
she is the only person who doesn’t have bad
thoughts about him. Hence, he decides to share
his secret superpower with her. At first,
Tammi doesn’t believe a word he is saying,
but when Nick reads all her thoughts, she is bound
to believe. Tammi then tells Nick that he is the
luckiest man on earth, as he has the ability to
understand women. Hence, instead of removing it,
he should take advantage of the ability. Nick also
agrees to the concept, and he decides to use it to
do the one thing he loves; seduce women. Later, he
approaches Lola and again asks her out on a date.
This time, he finally convinces her by reading her
mind and telling her everything that she desires.
The next day at work, Nick starts getting along
with his female colleagues. He helps them with
their work, and treats them with the utmost
respect. He also learns that Darcy is secretly
working to secure Lotto Sport’s project, and
offers to help. As the two continue chatting,
Darcy finds out that Nick has a teen daughter,
who happens to dislike him. She then suggests
he get new dresses for his daughter,
claiming that it is a big deal for girls.
When Nick returns home, he finds Alex discussing
an upcoming party with her two friends.
He greets her friends, but they despise him
for being a boring dad. However, he quickly
changes their opinion by offering to take Alex
out for shopping. This delights the little girl,
and she forgives Nick for the earlier incident.
In the next scene, Nick takes Lola out on a date
and reads her mind to create the perfect date.
After a while, he drops a drunk Lola near her
home, who is desperate to get in bed with
him. However, since Nick wants to make a
long lasting impression on her, he makes up
an excuse and leaves, promising to meet soon.
With days passing by, Nick starts spending more
time around women. His goal is to understand their
psyche better, so that he can become a better
person. He also starts spending more time with
Darcy, and using his special skills, steals her
ideas before she can even mention them. Although
taken aback, Darcy decides to remain silent, as
she believes that she has started to like him.
On the other hand, Nick’s relationship with his
daughter also begins to improve after he helps her
find a prom dress. Just as everything is going
good, Nick suffers a setback. He suspects that
Alex’s boyfriend is only dating her, so that he
can make love to her. One day, he tries to make
her understand that girls should be wise while
choosing their partners, but Alex is having none
of it. Instead, she shouts at him that he has
no right to suddenly barge into her life after
15 years, and become an overprotective dad. This
upsets Nick, but he knows that she is correct.
Cut to a week later, Nick continues using
Darcy’s feelings for him to his advantage.
Initially, he enjoys the success he
gets from it, but after a few days,
he starts feeling bad. It turns out that he, too,
has started liking her. One night, he goes over
to Darcy’s place to design posters for the Lotto
Sport deal. At first, they discuss only about work
but soon, they start drinking and have a romantic
time. They play songs, dance, and share their
life history with each other. As the two become
extremely drunk, they pass out on the floor.
Some days later, Lola visits Nick outside his
apartment. She confronts him for not contacting
her after their last encounter. This time, Nick
feels sad, and to give her a sense of closure,
he lies that he is gay. He also mentions that
if he was straight, he would have married her.
Surprisingly, Lola buys the story,
and hugs him with a sigh of relief.
On the day of the Lotto Sport presentation,
Nick feels guilty for stealing Darcy’s idea,
so he tells her to pitch instead of him. However,
being the kind woman that she is, Darcy refuses,
claiming that Nick came up with the idea first.
Because of this, Nick has no choice but to agree.
In the next scene, Nick again uses his mind
reading skills, to impress the all-female
panel at the presentation. As a result, his firm
secures the Lotto Sport contract. However, Nick
is sad about what he’s doing to Darcy. Later, he
stands next to a mirror and practices his speech,
in which he is going to reveal everything to
her. However, just before he can finish, Darcy
interrupts him and takes him to her newly bought
house. There, the two have another romantic date.
The next day, Nick meets his boss, Dan, in
his office, and gets some good news and some
bad news. The good news is that Nick has been
promoted to the position of creative director.
The bad news is; Darcy has been fired. Dan
mentions that he made a huge mistake by
hiring Darcy, as she didn’t utter a single
word during the Lotto Sport presentation.
This devastates Nick, and he reveals to his
boss that the ad campaign was actually Darcy’s
idea. He also pleads with Dan to hire her back.
Soon, he decides to go look for Darcy, but on the
way, he gets a call from his ex wife; Gigi, who
mentions that Alex was extremely upset on the call
for some reason. Now, she has become unreachable.
Scared, Nick immediately heads to Alex’s party
location, and finds her boyfriend with another
girl. He confronts the boy about his daughter,
and the latter reveals that he dumped Alex,
because she didn’t want to get intimate.
This enrages Nick, and he threatens the boy,
before walking off. After a bit of searching,
he finds Alex crying in the bathroom. He then hugs
his daughter tight, and the two depart for home.
Following this, he heads to Darcy’s house
and finds out that she’s planning to leave
for another city. In an attempt to stop her, he
confesses everything. He tells her that he has
a supernatural ability, with the help of which
he stole her ideas. He also mentions that Dan
has called her back to the office. When Darcy
asks him why he did all this, Nick replies that
he was angry and envious at the time. As expected,
Darcy is taken aback, and she berates him for
ruining her professional life. She then asks
him to leave, and never contact her again.
At night, a devastated Nick wanders around
the streets, despite the heavy rain. Suddenly,
he notices hundreds of fish flying, as if they
are birds. But before he can comprehend anything,
he loses consciousness. When he wakes up,
two women are staring at him. It turns out
that he was struck by lightning. Nick tries
to hear the women’s thoughts, but this time,
he fails. With this, he realizes that
his superpowers are finally gone.
Meanwhile, Darcy is heading to
the airport with her friend,
but at the last moment, she changes her mind.
In the last scene, as Nick watches
an opera show with his daughter,
Darcy approaches him, and reveals that she
has decided to rejoin the company, and stay
with him. The movie ends as Nick and Darcy start
working at their office together, as a couple.
