Victor Manuel Santana and Mariana Oropeza are two brilliant economists who meet while competing for an important international contract. From the moment they set eyes on each other, tension fills the air. Mariana finds Victor Manuel arrogant, chauvinistic and domineering. For Victor Manuel, Mariana is the typical rich girl: spoiled and presumptuous. What they cannot even imagine is that they are meant to be together and that their destinies were intertwined many years ago. Victor Manuel has only one purpose in life: to avenge the murder of his father. Twenty three years ago, a powerful and despotic millionaire named Alfredo Oropeza raped Aurora, fiancee of landowner Esteban Colmenares, and murdered him in front of his son, Victor Manuel. After becoming an orphan, Victor Manuel was adopted by one of his father's employees, Ramon Santana. In spite of having led a happy life as part of the Santana family, the terrible memory of that fatal afternoon has stayed in Victor Manuel's mind like...