After her newborn daughter is taken from her and given up for adoption, journalist Verónica Arellano spends years searching for her. When tragedy leaves the girl's adoptive family shattered, Verónica assumes a new identity to stay close to her daughter, setting in motion a story of love, family, and long-buried secrets.

Paz Roble, a kind, hard-working and honest woman from whom her husband, Fermín, takes her newborn daughter. Fermín has a large debt with some lenders and to pay it he decides to sell his daughter to Mauro Nicoliti. This plagiarism is orchestrated by Geneva, Mauro's adoptive sister. She lost her first-born daughter in childbirth and does everything to replace her dead daughter and keep her husband's fortune. On the other hand, Esteban Villa de Cortés loses his wife and becomes a widower with his three children. Elvira Moncada, Esteban's mother-in-law, holds him responsible for the death of her daughter. After a series of unexpected events, Esteban and Paz meet in the neighborhood where she lives with her family. The chemistry and great understanding that exists between them makes it inevitable that they will fall in love.

During the Mexican-American War, a group of students from the Colegio Militar suffer the invasion, hunted by the enemy, and are persecuted in the place they consider their home, with those they consider their brothers under threat.

After winning the lottery 15 years ago, Tino and his family start experiencing economical problems. Tino askes his neighbor for help, but his neighbor has his own issues too.