Jasmine () and her husband Hal () was Manhattan's business elite, a sister Jie Jin () and her husband took in a lottery 20 Wan intends to ask Hal for advice on starting a company, but Hal suggests that they invest in themselves and the blood transfusions won’t return. Jasmine's self-confident husband had an affair with several women behind her back. When she questioned her husband, she was told that her husband had "seriously fallen in love" with a French helper-she was even underage. Jasmine collapsed, she called her husband denounced, did not think her husband's company suspected fraud loopholes, two of this bankruptcy, and owed a lot of debt, Danny stepson at Harvard study () also Angrily ran away, her husband committed suicide in prison.
Jasmine left New York and moved to the San Francisco home of her unfamiliar sister, Jin Jie, to try to start life again, but everything was not as good as she wanted. She tried to work in a dentist's office, but by the dentist (harassment) is. She still dreams of returning to the glamorous lifestyle of the past, and at the same time starting to take computer and interior design cram schools, but she seems to have no talent for learning, who was an excellent student in the past. Her sister and her worker's crude fiancé also had conflicts with her. Her past gorgeous life and nightmarish fall still tortured her.
Back to reality, Jasmine know in a diamond bachelor party in the West Dwight Wright (), in order to seize him, she made up her job, he lied to her husband Was a surgeon, died of a heart attack, childless. Dwight soon fell in love with the elegant and well-informed Jasmine, and began to talk about marriage. But on an occasional occasion, her lie was exposed, and Dwight left in anger.
Jasmine finds the shop where her stepson Danny works, but Danny tells her to get out of her life. She returned to her sister's house and had a big fight with her sister again. Her spirit was broken, and she sat on the bench and muttered to herself about her past.
