Bespectacled Adela (Maricel Soriano) is a homely young woman who is a great disappointment to her father Dr. Maximo Sevilla (Eddie Gutierrez). Slow to learn, Adela can never be a doctor or a lawyer. She spends her time doing crochet and all she has from her late attractive and elegant mother is her name, Adela. But at a party she reluctantly attends, she meets David Javier (Richard Gomez), a smooth-talking bum whom Adela's distrustful father believes is only after her large inheritance. But the gullible Adela is taken in by flattery and blinded with love. She attempts to elope with David, who stands her up upon learning that she will be disinherited. Losing the only man she ever loved, Adela makes her father pay for the aversion she felt from him all her life.