Carlota and Cordelia are physically identical, but on the inside they are complete opposites. Carlota has grown up in a world dominated by her mother, Bernada, who emotionally abuses her and her older sister, Eugenia. Cordelia has grown up in a little town surrounded by farms and ranches. Cordelia is obsessed with wealth and power and will stop at nothing to get it. The story begins as Eugenia gets pregnant out of wedlock, faced by embarrassment Bernada sends her to a small town, the town in which Cordelia resides. Meanwhile Eugenia is gone and never spoken of, Carlota starts dating a doctor named Alvaro, it is true love. However, Bernada won`t allow it, because if any of her daughters get married, Bernada will have to give them each their inheritance which is everything Bernada has. As their love grows, Alvaro`s parents move into a ranch in the small town in which Cordelia lives, at their arrival she immediately starts plotting ways to get wealth and power.