Former international model Natalia Edgerly and her husband Arlo have relocated from the United States to Lima, Peru. She now works at the same Catholic orphanage from which she was adopted as an infant. Although childless, she experiences a maternal awakening when ten-year-old Marisol Lagos, is abandoned at the orphanage gate.

Marisol and fellow orphan Juan Alfonso de San Miguel become inseparable—childhood friends on the road to becoming lovers.

Natalia's widowed father, Roger McCrory, returns to Peru after 30 years in search of Rosaria Colomé, his former lover—and Natalia's birth mother. Natalia vows to keep them apart. But, Roger finds Rosaria, and together they test their reawakened feelings. Has the great, but adulterous, love of their youth survived the decades to allow them a second chance?

Marisol's mother, Peru's most wanted public enemy, resurfaces and demands that Natalia return her daughter, now 16. This sets in motion a chain of tragic events. Natalia's love and courage are challenged to the limit, when one member of her inner circle of loved ones goes to prison.