María, a nurse and the only daughter of a smuggler, falls in love with the journalist who investigates her father's tricks and he manages to kill him by his men, without knowing that she is expecting a baby from him. She is sent to a farm to give birth, without anyone knowing. When the child is born, she is told that it has died, but in truth, they send the baby to an orphanage. After the depression Priest Esteban, Maria's cousin advises her that in spite of her pain she should continue with her life. She pays attention to that, and some time later, she decides to return to live and marry her old lover, doctor Enrique. Soon after they have a daughter, Mayte, a rebellious teenager in search of love. At a party she falls in love with Miguel, a shy boy, and the love of these two is so great that they decide to get married. Meanwhile Maria's mother dies, tells her the truth about her son. Maria investigates the place of the orphanage as crazy and manages to know the current name of her son and the family that adopted him. Then she learns that her daughter's husband is nothing more and nothing less than his own son, the stolen, deceived and adopted. Maria speaks the situation with her cousin, telling him that she must go to her daughter to confess that she is really married to her brother, but he stops her, and tells her that the plans of God is perfect, and let them be happy, that confession, will be just something that will ruin them forever.