Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.

Its the story of a naive Peruvian native who goes to Lima, Peru, in order to gain fortune, on her way back to her hometown, she discovers that her ,(almost, as she said it) husband has gone to Lima in order to solve a problem with a building company that threatens to demolish her town and build an enormous hotel on top.

A teacher encounters the suspicion of her students when she takes charge of an elementary school. At the same time that he tries to conquer them, he begins a romance with a professor who was a former student.