Marina is the manager to a Hotel in the city. Her executive career is going through a rough patch when she is informed that her mother, Beatriz Reverte, suffers from a disease that compromises her life.
At the same time, in the town “Nuestra Señora del Mar”, lives Damian Fabre; a young captain who owns a fishing boat called “The Tempest”. Damian is in charge of supplying merchandise for a canned food manufacturer called “Neptuno”. Esthercita, the mayor’s daughter, is obsessed with Damian, and after some incisive flirting, he finally corresponds her without having a clue of what is coming close to him.
Mercedes Artigas, a mysterious and elegant woman, shows up in the city. She is “Neptuno’s” owner and she desperately needs someone who helps her save the factory from going bankrupt. She offers Marina the chance to recover her professional life by taking care of the factory’s financial and administrative management. Although she was a little skeptic at the beginning, Marina accepts to move to the town, especially when she is advised that her mother’s health would get worse in the city.
Mercedes keeps a big secret: she is Marina’s real mother, but she had to quit her daughter in the past. She used to be really poor and Ernesto, who was a mobster ever since then, fell in love with her, but Mercedes didn’t correspond to him because she was in love with Leonardo and got pregnant with his child. Furious, Ernesto killed Leonardo. Mercedes ran away and a short later she gave birth to twin sisters. Ernesto stole Magdalena, and regardless of being a girl, he abused her and condemned her to a life of prostitution. To keep Marina from having the same luck, Mercedes decided to give her in adoption.
Hernan, a wealthy and good-looking man, has always been obsessed with Marina. He has enough power to make everyone in the town surrender to him; completely different to the Hernan, Marina met in school. In order to provoke Damian’s jealousy,
