The story of Ana Francisca, who begins the soap opera as a young and poor teenager, unpopular at school in a small fictious city where everybody knows everything about everyone. Later, she gets married with the owner of the city`s chocolate factory (the major company in the city) and turns herself into a very rich woman, and she also is a very good person, later, her husband dies. The rest of the story happens between the population of the city of Ventura, where a group of 4 people try to take Ana Francisca out of the factory command and try to make all kinds of plans to take it off from her, with no success. Ana Francisca also has passion for one person, Danilo, who also loves her, but their love is repressed in sad feelings about each other`s past.