After her marriage becomes a nightmare, the humble small town girl Clara is committed to a psychiatric hospital and prevented from seeing her son growing up. It was all a scheme by her manipulative mother-in-law, who wants to seize her lands and explore their emerald mines. Betrayed and humiliated, Clara bounces back and returns ten years later as a powerful and wealthy woman. Even thirsty for revenge and justice, she never loses her softness to win back her son's trust and maybe find a new love.
The story deals with issues related to racism by narrating the story of Guadalupe (Laura Flores), a girl daughter of Don Humberto and "La Negra Macaria" (Celia Cruz) whom she takes for her nanny; Due to an agreement between her family and the Alamo family to save her father, Don Humberto Roldán, from financial ruin, she is forced to abandon her boyfriend, Luis Diego Morales, a teacher of modest media, and marry Lisandro. del Alamo, a rich and powerful man, for whom Guadalupe has no love. Over time, Guadalupe develops strong feelings for him.
A woman denounces her husband for mistreatment and he in revenge throws their son into the sea. She is traumatized, and loses her memory. However, the son is saved from drowning and begins the heroic search for his mother.