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Hipólita Díaz is a young woman who lives in Panama with her husband, Antonio, and her mother-in-law, Adelaida. Antonio suffered from sexual abuses when he was a child, so he isn’t able to consummate his marriage. Adelaida wants to have a grandchild, as Antonio will not inherit the fortune of his uncle, Próspero, unless he sires a son. Luis Manrique y Arellano is a noble Mexican who came to Santa Rita to close a deal under orders from his cousin Diego, the Count of Guevara, without knowing that the trip was a pretext to have him killed. When Luis is captured by Adelaida's servants while fleeing from justice, she orders him to take Antonio's place in Hipólita's bed, or she'll turn him over to the authorities. So Luis goes to Hipólita's bedroom, intending to escape from a window. It's very dark, she awakes upon hearing him try to escape, she doesn’t see him very well and she believes he is her husband. He makes love to her to keep her quiet, and then makes good his escape. But before he leaves, Hipólita discovers that this man isn’t her husband, but an escaped prisoner. Luis departs, without Hipólita seeing his face or knowing his name – but Luis knows hers. She is furious with her mother-in-law for what she has done, but she can’t change what happened. Some weeks later, Hipólta finds out that she is pregnant with Luis's child, so she decides to leave home with her maid, Adalgisa, and go to Mexico, where her family lives. There, she has her child, Rafael, and finds her mother and her sister, but they aren’t very thrilled to see her. Hipólita was Asunción's illegitimate daughter, so she sent the girl to Panama to be raised by her grandmother, so that no one in Mexico could know that she had a daughter outside of wedlock. When Hipólita arrives in Mexico, she has to fight against her stepfather's hate and her mother's desperation when she finds out that there's another bastard in the family. Luis also lives in Mexico: h

Hipólita Díaz vive con su abuela Carlota en un pequeño poblado en Panamá donde Hipólita creció lejos de su madre, Asunción, quien por haberla tenido sin haberse casado le fue arrebatada. Carlota es interesada y ambiciosa, por eso cuando Adelaida le ofrece una buena cantidad para que Hipólita sea la esposa de su hijo Antonio, Carlota no lo piensa dos veces y obliga a su nieta a casarse con el hombre. Sin saberlo Hipólita es casada con Antonio para callar muchos rumores acerca de la hombría de este, cuando Carlota muere Hipólita queda a merced de su suegra quien la maltrata y humilla, pasan los meses sin que la pareja haya consumado el matrimonio por la impotencia sexual de Antonio. Adelaida esperando que su hijo logre embarazar a Hipólita para limpiar su reputación como hombre lo presiona día y noche para que consumen su matrimonio. Luís Manrique es un hombre de buena familia nacido en el pueblo de Cuencas y primo de Diego Arellano El Conde De Guevara, llega a Panamá a arreglar un negocio de su primo sin saber que este es otro plan de Diego para matarlo, Luís es atacado por unos hombres, pero logra huir, sin tener donde esconderse se mete en la propiedad de Doña Adelaida quien lo manda a apresar. Adelaida convencida de entregar a tan sospechoso hombre le propone un trato a Luis, dejarlo ir y ayudarlo a escapar a cambio de que este se acueste con Hipólita intentando embarazarla, sin darse cuenta Hipólita se acuesta con Luís pensando que es Antonio pero este le revela su identidad y el trato hecho por el y su suegra, esa misma noche Luís se va rumbo a México. Después de unas semanas Hipólita se sabe embarazada de Luís, ese hijo será indispensable para acallar los rumores acerca de la sexualidad de Antonio, pero Hipólita escapa hacia Cuencas para buscar al padre de su hijo y que le de el apellido que le corresponde. Después de 3 años Adelaida muere. En dicho pueblo no solo vive Luís sino también Asunción con su marido Francisco y l