This story takes place in the middle of XIX century in Puebla, Mexico. Estela Ballesteros suffers from a heart problem. Due to this fact her family, a very preservative one, allows her to study art with the painter Octavio Durán and to have an engagement with Angel Ramirez, whom the family doesn't like. When Estela realizes that she cannot change her irresponsible fiancé, she brakes up with him and accepts to marry Octavio. On the wedding day, when Estela and Octavio are in front of the altar, Angel interrupts the ceremony to prevent the marriage, which causes that Estela has a heart attack and dies. Octavio is very affected. Angel flees to Holland where he falls in love with a dancer with whom he has a son. Daisy, the Estela's sister also dies, but before her death she leaves her daughter Estelita to Octavio, and he raises her up to be an exact copy of her aunt Estela.