A rainy night, two small beings come to the world. Nevertheless, the obsessive desire for a first-born male and the fatal destiny, they change the life of these newborn children. The child who was born in a wretched shack sees the light first in the opulence of " The Big House ", whereas the pretty small one to which was corresponding a cradle of silk, gives her first steps between dilapidated walls and the misery. The payment for the silence of so terrible secret sound a few valuable emeralds (esmeralda), a couple of precious stones that do not pay in anything the injustice of the abandonment. And the time, which everything it should have cured, only entrusted interweaving the traps of the love. Esmeralda is born blind, but the kindness of her heart gives him to light to be happy and illusion to believe that some day will see the love. Her eyes are " the eyes of the love ". Esmeralda and Jose Armando are loved intimately and give free rein to the love, reaching it in the fine delivery of their souls. The obsession, the desire, the family interests, the false love of a woman and the pride for the caste makes prevail destroy any noble feeling. Esmeralda and Jose Armando are victims of this sea of rancors that, little by little, immerses them in the darkness of the dislike.