Matilde doesn’t want to marry a rich man because she is in love with a poor soldier, Jose Luis. The Mendosa family are economically ruined and because of that Paula, the mother of Matilde proposes a deal to Manuel: to give him Matilde if he pays to save their mansion. When she finds out that Matilde is in love with a soldier, she achieves that he is taken to prison and Matilde marries Manuel. Jose Luis manages to get out of prison and goes to the mansion of the Mendosa family after the wedding. He asks Matilde to come with him but Manuel finds out and takes Magdalena at his ranch. Maria, the daughter of the foreman, lives at the ranch and is in love with Manuel, so she wants him to divorce Matilde. Jose Luis comes to the ranch and takes the place of Maria’s father that has died. Matilde is in love with Manuel and wants Jose Luis out of there. Jose Luis doesn’t believe her and tries to convince her to go with him. When Manuel finds out the truth about the new foreman, Matilde is going to have his baby, but Manuel doesn’t believe it’s his child and he abandons her...