So she decides to leave it all behind, to go and live with her son far from the empty luxury that life has gifted her.
Now Jia Jia is the lady she has always wanted to be, with a lifestyle that allows her to spend to her heart’s content, but she is no longer the same person. When Lao Zhong, just divorced, sends a chauffeur-driven car to pick her up, it is time for Jia Jia to return to China. Rushed to hospital, Frank saves her life, and the life of her son, born that very day. But during the reception dance, Jia Jia faints. She buys a new dress for the occasion and turns up unexpectedly at the wedding to lend him her moral support. When Frank feels obliged to attend his ex-wife’s wedding, it is time for Jia Jia to pay him back for all the tenderness he has lavished upon her for weeks. Jia Jia starts to pay more attention to the kind of man Frank is: patient, calm, shy, dedicated to his daughter, caring. Jia Jia feels even more alone, but Frank continues to stand by her in the worst moments. Her mother is a career woman who travels around China at the head of a pharmaceutical multinational and has left her upbringing in the hands of the child’s father.īut the day comes that the legendary credit card stops working and Lao Zhong cannot be contacted. A talented doctor, Frank left the medical profession after having moved to the USA to give his daughter Julie a brighter future she wouldn’t have been able to attend the best schools in China due to medical problems. At Christmas, Lao Zhong breaks his promise to spend the festivities with her, spending the time with his family instead, so Jia Jia makes the most of Frank’s company, and discovers that it is only by chance that he is a chauffeur. Alone and far from home, Jia Jia’s only company is her unlimited credit card and Frank, who shuttles her around for her fabulous shopping trips and her depressing nights out. Lao Zhong cannot always be contacted by phone. Jia Jia finds herself sharing the apartment with two other pregnant women Zhou/Joe and Moon. Frank, the driver, helps her find lodgings with a Taiwanese woman who has been offering shelter to pregnant women for years. Once in Seattle, Jia Jia, cheeky and whimsical, has to adapt. In Jia Jia’s case, Lao Zhong, the boy’s father, a wealthy, married man, seems to have no intention of leaving his wife. She is one of the many visitors to the USA who stay there illegally just long enough to give birth to a child and thereby bestow upon it a nationality and a future that it could never have in China. We meet Jia Jia at the airport in Seattle in the United States as she is passing passport control hesitant in English, she wins over the immigration policeman’s doubts with her winning smile and by citing the title of the film Sleepless in Seattle.
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