归国在上海发展的富商张天找到失散多年的女儿张宁（赵薇）后，因看不惯她的举止行为，请来失业很久的香港设计师阿祖（郑伊健）替她改头换面，以期她能女承父业。

　　张宁与阿祖初接触时，别扭矛盾没少闹，但张宁终被炮制成其父心中的女性形象，两人在这一过程中，也慢慢互相倾心。张天的宴会上，张宁大方得体的表现吸引了某外交官的儿子的目光，后者对其展开追求。不等张宁做出选择，自卑的阿祖辞职返回香港。张宁随后也来到香港，试图劝阿祖振作。

Joe is a Hong Kong rogue living off his clearly long suffering girlfriend. When he's inexplicably hired as an image consultant by Shanghai millionaire Cheung, to spruce up his long-lost, street urchin daughter Ning, the scene is set for a fun ugly duckling tale in the tried and tested rom-com style.