Fátima Almeida (Alexandra Lencastre) and Maria Laurinda Almeida de Amaral (Margarida Vila-Nova) are mother and daughter. Joined only by the blood tie, but different in everything else that characterizes them. Maria Laurinda is a young woman who hates her name and her low social status and does not look for ways to reach her goal: to live a life away from privations and to marry the bisexual millionaire Afonso Gomes Martins de Mello (Hugo Tavares) to ascend to Wealth and the status of the Martins de Mello family. Afonso is a rich boy, who leads an irresponsible life and dates with Catarina (Mafalda Pinto). Fatima is a hard-working, honest and determined supermarket worker who, knowing one of her daughter's schemes to make money - Maria Laurinda is preparing to make a drug transport - takes her place by letting herself be held in place of the Daughter, in the cold gaze of her, watching the mother's arrest.