Maria is a young, beautiful, brave and noble woman. Among the workers of "La Rosaleda", a plantation of the Cortés family, she has been distinguished as a natural leader, always ready to help others. Her life has been happy, until she found herself caught in the whirlwind of ambition and low passions that surrounded the sudden and mysterious death of the plantation patriarch. In a single day, Maria loses everything that her life represented and she learns that love has a bitter taste.