Set in the rustic town of San Sebastian, Eloisa Aguirre struggles in providing her family a good living. Due to unfavorable circumstances, Eloisa gets to meet Doña Hilaria Buenaventura and her four daughters-in-law who each crave for some piece of a comfortable life. While making herself busy in their family's small piggery, Eloisa meets Lucio Aragon, the disinherited achiever working as a professor in Manila. Their interest in agriculture will bring them closer.