Paz Roble, a kind, hard-working and honest woman from whom her husband, Fermín, takes her newborn daughter. Fermín has a large debt with some lenders and to pay it he decides to sell his daughter to Mauro Nicoliti. This plagiarism is orchestrated by Geneva, Mauro's adoptive sister. She lost her first-born daughter in childbirth and does everything to replace her dead daughter and keep her husband's fortune. On the other hand, Esteban Villa de Cortés loses his wife and becomes a widower with his three children. Elvira Moncada, Esteban's mother-in-law, holds him responsible for the death of her daughter. After a series of unexpected events, Esteban and Paz meet in the neighborhood where she lives with her family. The chemistry and great understanding that exists between them makes it inevitable that they will fall in love.
Fermín surprises Luna with some gifts and assures Lupita that the little girl Paz rescued could be her daughter. Esteban confronts Elvira and assures her that if Salomón has good intentions with Gala, he is willing to support her courtship. Elvira receives a call where they ask for five million pesos; if she refuses, society will find out that she had a daughter before Berenice. Some hooded men enter Ginebra's house to steal everything from her, Esteban protects her from the thugs.