 Rosana Soler is a young Spanish girl who is sent to Venezuela to live with her Aunt Celeste and Uncle Elias when she is orphaned. After a rape attempt by her uncle, Rosana runs away from home and meets Eva Rudel, a cruel woman who runs a whorehouse. Thanks to Celeste, Rosana becomes a ward of Eva, whose husband has a bastard son, Alvaro, that he wants to legitimize and bring to Caracas. Armando doesn t know that his son had been a bullfighter who was killed in the ring, so when he shows up in Spain to collect his son, Alvaro s sister Isabel dresses up as a boy and greets her new "dad". Isabel s goal, however, is to wreak vengeance on Eva, who was responsible for landing her mother in jail. Rosana accompanies Armando to Spain and on the plane bumps into Makuto, who has just been released from prison where he was incarcerated for a crime he didn t commit. Love doesn t take long to bloom between them, but a million barriers block the way to happiness.